節 (jié)

festival/holiday/section/measure word for class periods

How 節 is written

Strokes
13
Radical
⺮ — bamboo
Traditional
節
Simplified
节

Components

  • ⺮ bamboo
  • 丨 line
  • 彐 pig snout
  • 乚 second
  • 丶 dot
  • 卩 seal

Common words using 節

情人節 qíngrénjié
Valentine's Day
春節 chūnjié
Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)
節日 jiérì
holiday; festival; CL:個|个[ge4]
節目 jiémù
program; item (on a program); CL:臺|台[tai2],個|个[ge4],套[tao4]
佳節 jiājié
festive day; holiday
元宵節 yuánxiāojié
Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
光棍節 guānggùnjié
Singles' Day, celebrated on November 11 (11⁄11)
季節 jìjié
time; season; period
情節 qíngjié
plot; circumstances
時節 shíjié
season; time
環節 huánjié
round segment; segment (of annelid worms); connection
節儉 jiéjiǎn
frugal; economical

節 in a sentence

這學期我有二十節課,非常忙。

Zhè xuéqī wǒ yǒu èrshí jié kè, fēicháng máng.

“I have twenty periods of class this semester; I'm very busy.”

How common is 節?

節 is the 514th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 76.4% of all running text.

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