蕉

jiāo

j+iāo·1st tone

banana

Radical: 艹 Strokes: 15

Structure: Top small, bottom largeFrequency: Common

Same radical

花节草落营英药苦菜蒙荣藏

Same radical

花节草落营英药苦菜蒙荣藏薄荒若

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Character Decomposition

蕉=艹+焦

Etymology

plant

Meanings

banana

jiāo

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Words with 蕉 47 total

abaca · Manila hemp蕉麻jiāo má banana · CL:根 gēn,把 bǎ香蕉xiāng jiāo Japanese banana (Musa basjoo)芭蕉bā jiāo canna or Indian shot (genus Canna)美人蕉měi rén jiāo palm-leaf fan芭蕉扇bā jiāo shàn Jiaocheng, a district of Ningde City, Fujian蕉城区Jiāo chéng Qū Jiaoling, a county in Meizhou City 梅州市, Guangdong蕉岭县Jiāo lǐng Xiàn banana person (yellow outside, white inside) · mildly pejorative term used by Chinese for assimilated Asian Americans · Westernized person of Asian appearance香蕉人xiāng jiāo rén lit. covering the deer and searching for the firewood (idiom)\ · fig. to mistake reality for a dream and repeatedly make errors; to be deluded and unable to distinguish truth from illusion覆鹿寻蕉fù lù xún jiāo

Idioms with 蕉 1 total Chain

lit. covering the deer and searching for the firewood (idiom)\ · fig. to mistake reality for a dream and repeatedly make errors; to be deluded and unable to distinguish truth from illusion覆鹿寻蕉fù lù xún jiāo

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