IDENTITY
街jiēstreet
HSK 2Top 500
CORE MEANING
street
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.streetHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 彳step radical (chì)
- strokes
- 12
- Structure
- left-middle-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿲彳圭亍
- walking
- gives the sound jiē (historical)
- walking
USAGE
Common words
街道jiēdàostreet
大街dàjiēmain street
逛街guàngjiēto window-shop
Graded examples
这条街上有很多商店。Zhè tiáo jiē shang yǒu hěn duō shāngdiàn.HSK3
There are many shops on this street.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 接
LEARNING
Memory aid
Walking (彳) between lines of earthen (圭) shops — the street.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #500
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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