节
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joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar); seasonal festival; (bound form) to economize; to save; (bound form) moral integrity; chastity; classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc; knot (nautical miles per hour)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 艸 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 節
- Common rank
- #209
- Unicode
- U+8282
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 节 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Simplified form of 節; sections of bamboo ⺮
Components 艹
? unknown part
How to remember it
holiday · Heisig RSH #1111
flower + chop
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 节
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白色情人节 | White Day | |
| 大节 | major festival; important matter; major principle; high moral character | |
| 节子 | gnarl; knot | |
| 节气门 | throttle | |
| 节水 | to save water | |
| 小节线 | (music) bar line | |
| 小节 | a minor matter; trivia; bar (music) | |
| 情人节 | Valentine's Day | |
| 有节 | segmented | |
| 气节 | moral integrity; unflinching righteousness | |
| 节气 | solar term | |
| 节电 | to save electricity; power saving | |
| 分节 | segmented | |
| 骨头节儿 | joint (of the skeleton) | |
| 音节体 | syllabic script | |
| 有节制 | temperate; moderate; restrained | |
| 过节儿 | (coll.) grudge; strife; (coll.) good manners | |
| 空气调节器 | (formal) air conditioner | |
| 光明节 | Hanukkah (Chanukah), 8 day Jewish holiday starting on the 25th day of Kislev (can occur fr… | |
| 字节数 | byte count |