蕉 — Chinese character
蕉
jiāo
banana, plantain
- Pinyin
- jiāo
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 艹 焦
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 焦
- Japanese
- 蕉 as a kanji
Common words with 蕉
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 香蕉 | xiāng jiāo | banana; measure word: 根 (gēn), 把 (bǎ) |
| 芭蕉 | bā jiāo | Japanese banana (Musa basjoo) |
| 美人蕉 | měi rén jiāo | canna or Indian shot (genus Canna) |
| 芭蕉扇 | bā jiāo shàn | palm-leaf fan |
| 蕉萃 | qiáo cuì | variant of 憔悴 (qiáo cuì) |
| 蕉麻 | jiāo má | abaca; Manila hemp |
| 香蕉人 | xiāng jiāo rén | banana person (yellow outside, white inside); mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans |
English words written with 蕉
蕉 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
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.