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Word and Radical Components of 杂货

The Chinese word 杂货 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
杂货 1. Simplified form of 雜貨

杂货 ⇨ 杂 + 货
Component Pinyin Meanings
杂 1. Simplified form of 雜
2. Simplified form of 朵
货 1. Simplified form of 貨

杂 ⇨ 九 + 木
Component Pinyin Meanings
九 jiǔ 1. nine
2. (figurative) many
3. (weather) each of the nine nine-day periods from the winter solstice
4. (Cantonese, minced oath, euphemism) Synonym of 㞗 (gau1, t=penis)
5. Variant of 鳩
木 mù 1. tree; woody plant
     Synonyms: 樹
     樹木 - tree
     灌木 - shrub
     木芍藥 - tree peony
2. wood; timber
     木頭tou - log
3. wooden
     這 張 桌子 是 木 的。 - This table is made of wood
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
     木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
     棺木 - coffin
     就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
     有木有 - innit, damn right
6. numb
     麻木 - numb, insensitive
     她 手指 凍 木 了。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.

货 ⇨ 化 + 贝
Component Pinyin Meanings
化 huà 1. to change; to transform
2. to become; to turn into
3. to melt
     把 雪 化-掉 - make snow melt
4. to dissolve
5. (Suffix denoting "change into ...". Akin to English (m, en, -ize) and m, en, -ization).
     民主化 - democratize
6. (chemistry) (Affix denoting combination.)
     氧化鈣 - calcium oxide
     氫氧化鈉 - sodium hydroxide
7. Short for 教化, enlightenment; cultivation
8. (in compounds) Short for 化學, chemistry
     日化 - household chemicals
     化工 - chemical industry
9. Variant of 花
10. Variant of 貨
贝 1. shell
2. Simplified form of 貝

九 ⇨ 丿 + 乙
Component Pinyin Meanings
丿 piě 1. slash
yì 2. left-falling stroke, usually read as 撇
3. to arrive
乙 yǐ 1. The second of the ten heavenly stems (天干)
2. second; 2; B; II; beta (used for unnamed people or objects, to enumerate headings in a list, for grades, etc.)
     路人 甲 和 路人 乙 (lùrén jiǎ hé lùrén yǐ) - passerby A and passerby B
     他 法語 成績 得 了 乙。 (Tā fǎyǔ chéngjì dé le yǐ.) - He got a B in French.
     乙肝 (yǐgān) - hepatitis B
3. (chemistry) eth-; ethyl
     乙烷 (yǐwán) - ethane
4. (literary, formal) one
     （公文）……加 乙 份。 ((gōngwén)...... Jiā yǐ fèn.) - (In official letters) …added one copy.
yǐ 5. (ACG, sometimes sarcastic) thank you for the hard work in (doing something)
     自-演 乙 (zìyǎn yǐ) - (q-lite, sarcastically) thank you for your hard work in staging this "drama".
yǐ 6. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note ti (7).
     Synonyms: ?
7. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note low ti (7̣).
     Synonyms: 一
8. (Cantonese) Only used in 山雞乙 (a place in Hong Kong)

化 ⇨ 亻 + 匕
Component Pinyin Meanings
亻 rén 1. Side form of the person (人) radical.
2. usage. Only used as a component in a character. Referred to as 單人旁.
匕 bǐ 1. (historical) a kind of spoon in ancient China
2. (literary) dagger
3. Original form of 妣 (deceased mother)
4. Variant of 牝