荚 — Chinese character
荚
jiá
seed-pod
- Pinyin
- jiá
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 艹 夹
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 夹
- Traditional
- 莢
Common words with 荚
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 豆荚 (豆莢) | dòu jiá | pod (of legumes) |
| 荚果 (莢果) | jiá guǒ | seed pod; legume |
| 皂荚 (皂莢) | zào jiá | Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis) |
| 皂荚树 (皂莢樹) | zào jiá shù | Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis) |
| 蓂荚 (蓂莢) | míng jiá | (mythology) auspicious plant whose leaves were said to grow and fall in a cycle marking the days of the month |
English words written with 荚
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.