街
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street; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 行 +6
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 街
- Common rank
- #1,152
- Unicode
- U+8857
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 街
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 华尔街日报 | Wall Street Journal | |
| 上街区 | Shangjie, a district of Zhengzhou City 鄭州市|郑州市[Zheng4 zhou1 Shi4], Henan | |
| 地下街 | underground shopping arcade; underground mall | |
| 街道办事处 | (PRC) subdistrict office (basic-level urban administrative unit) | |
| 华尔街 | Wall Street, New York; by extension, American big business | |
| 三月街 | Third Month Fair, traditional festival of the Bai Nationality 白族[Bai2 zu2] | |
| 步行街 | car-free zone; pedestrian street | |
| 美食街 | food court; food street | |
| 街头艺人 | busker; street artist | |
| 过街天桥 | skywalk; pedestrian bridge | |
| 八角街 | Barkhor street, central business area and pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, … | |
| 老鼠过街，人人喊打 | lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom); fig. everyone detests a … | |
| 过街老鼠 | sb or sth detested by all; target of scorn; anathema; cf. 老鼠過街，人人喊打|老鼠过街，人人喊打[lao3 shu3 gu… | |
| 大街 | street; main street; CL:條|条[tiao2] | |
| 街区 | block; neighborhood | |
| 街市 | downtown area; commercial district; (chiefly Cantonese) wet market, i.e. a marketplace sel… | |
| 街头 | street | |
| 街机 | arcade machine | |
| 丁字街 | T-junction | |
| 上街 | to go onto the streets; to go shopping |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 圭 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圭 sound part | jade tablet | |
| 挂 | to suspend, to put up, to hang; suspense | |
| 鞋 | shoes, footwear in general | |
| 佳 | good, auspicious; beautiful; delightful | |
| 桂 | cassia, cinnamon | |
| 硅 | silicon | |
| 哇 | to vomit; an infant's cry | |
| 闺 | women's quarters; lady's apartment | |
| 蛙 | frog | |
| 奎 | a man's stride; a constellation | |
| 卦 | divination, fortune-telling | |
| 洼 | pit, hollow, depression; swamp | |
| 畦 | sections in a vegetable farm | |
| 眭 | a piercing gaze; the evil eye | |
| 筀 | bamboo (archaic) | |
| 絓 | to hinder, to obstruct | |
| 鲑 | salmon; Spheroides vermicularis | |
| 恚 | anger, rage | |
| 诖 | error, mistake; to deceive, to mislead |