蕉
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banana
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 艸 +12
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 蕉
- Common rank
- #3,013
- Unicode
- U+8549
Sound it out + + = · + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
banana · Heisig RSH #1773
flower + roast turkey
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 蕉
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蕉城区 | Jiaocheng, a district of Ningde City 寧德市|宁德市[Ning2 de2 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 美人蕉 | canna or Indian shot (genus Canna) | |
| 香蕉人 | banana person (yellow outside, white inside); mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for a… | |
| 蕉岭县 | Jiaoling, a county in Meizhou City 梅州市[Mei2 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 蕉城 | see 蕉城區|蕉城区[Jiao1 cheng2 Qu1] | |
| 香蕉 | banana; CL:根[gen1],把[ba3] | |
| 蕉麻 | abaca; Manila hemp | |
| 蕉岭 | see 蕉嶺縣|蕉岭县[Jiao1 ling3 Xian4] | |
| 芭蕉扇 | palm-leaf fan | |
| 芭蕉 | Japanese banana (Musa basjoo) | |
| 蕉萃 | variant of 憔悴[qiao2 cui4] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 焦 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 焦 sound part | burned, scorched; anxious, vexed | |
| 鹪 | wren | |
| 礁 | jetty, reef | |
| 瞧 | to glance at, to look at, to see | |
| 谯 | tower; to ridicule, to blame; surname | |
| 憔 | worn-out, haggard, emaciated | |
| 噍 | to chew, to eat, to munch | |
| 僬 | clever, alert; pigmy | |
| 膲 | the triple foci, the three visceral cavities | |
| 醮 | to anoint, to perform a rite; Daoist or Buddhist ceremony | |
| 蟭 | mite, larva; mantis egg | |
| 劁 | to castrate, to neuter |