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Mythic Mandarin

架 (jià): meaning and stroke order

架 (jià) means to support, frame, rack, framework, classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc.

架

Simplified
架
Traditional
架 (same form)
Pinyin
jià

Stroke order of 架

架

  • jià to support; frame
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 架

  1. jià
    • to support
    • frame
    • rack
    • framework
    • classifier for planes, large vehicles, radios etc

Radical and structure

架
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 9 strokes · 加 on top, 木 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 架

架 in our stories

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  • “这是我三十岁那年,我父亲摔的。那天我们大吵了一架,他气得把碗往地上一扔,之后半年,我们谁也没理谁。”

    zhè shì wǒ sānshí suì nà nián wǒ fùqīn shuāi de nà tiān wǒmen dà chǎo le yí jià tā qì de bǎ wǎn wǎng dì shàng yì rēng zhīhòu bànnián wǒmen shéi yě méi lǐ shéi

    "My father smashed this the year I turned thirty. We had a huge row that day; he was so angry he threw the bowl on the floor, and for six months afterwards neither of us spoke to the other."

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 架

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).