街 (jiē)
street
How 街 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 行 — go/do
- Traditional
- 街
- Simplified
- 街 (unchanged)
Components
- 行 go/do
- 圭 N/A
Common words using 街
- 逛街 guàngjiē
- to take a walk; to window-shop; to stroll down the street
- 上街 shàngjiē
- to go onto the streets; to go shopping
- 大街 dàjiē
- street; main street; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- 步行街 bùxíngjiē
- car-free zone
- 花街 huājiē
- red-light district
- 華爾街 huáěrjiē
- Wall Street, New York; by extension, American big business
- 街道 jiēdào
- street; CL:條|条[tiao2]; subdistrict
- 街頭 jiētóu
- street
- 僕街 pūjiē
- drop dead!; go to hell!; fuck you! (Cantonese)
- 八廓街 bākuòjiē
- Barkhor street, central business area and pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet
- 八角街 bājiǎojiē
- Barkhor street, central business area and pilgrim circuit around Jokhang temple in Lhasa, Tibet; same as 八廓街[Ba1 kuo4 jie1]
- 唐人街 tángrénjiē
- Chinatown; CL:條|条[tiao2],座[zuo4]
街 in a sentence
週末我們喜歡去逛街。
Zhōumò wǒmen xǐhuān qù guàngjiē.
“We like to go shopping (strolling the streets) on weekends.”
How common is 街?
街 is the 1,099th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 90.6% of all running text.
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