芥 — Chinese character
芥
jiè
mustard, broccoli
- Pinyin
- jiè
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 艹 介
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 介
- Japanese
- 芥 as a kanji
Common words with 芥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 芥末 | jiè mo | mustard; wasabi |
| 芥菜 | jiè cài | leaf mustard (Brassica juncea); also pr. [gai4cai4] |
| 芥蒂 | jiè dì | an obstruction; barrier |
| 荆芥 (荊芥) | jīng jiè | schizonepeta, herb used in Chinese medicine |
| 芥子气 (芥子氣) | jiè zǐ qì | mustard gas |
| 芥兰 (芥蘭) | gài lán | variant of 芥蓝 (gài lán) |
| 芥茉 | jiè mo | variant of 芥末 (jiè mo) |
| 拾芥 | shí jiè | to pick up cress; fig. sth easy to do |
| 氮芥气 (氮芥氣) | dàn jiè qì | nitrogen mustard |
| 水田芥 | shuǐ tián jiè | watercress |
| 筷子芥 | kuài zi jiè | Arabis, a genus of Brassica family including cress |
| 芥花油 | jiè huā yóu | rapeseed oil; canola oil |
English words written with 芥
芥 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2 · 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.