(jiē) - receive, pick up, connect, catch in Mandarin
jiēTraditional: 接
HSK 3
#787 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
receive, pick up, connect, catch
Word origin
接 (jiē, 'to receive, to connect') is a phono-semantic compound: 扌(the hand radical) marks an action of the hand, with 妾 (qiè) as the phonetic component.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 扌(hand radical) + 妾 (qiè, phonetic)
Stroke order
接
Examples
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I'll go to the airport to pick you up.
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Please answer the phone.
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She received good news.
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I am going to the airport to pick up a guest.
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Please answer the phone.
接 (jiē) means receive, pick up, connect, catch. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
Appears in 7 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 接.
接受jiē shòuto accept, to receive, to take on直接zhí jiēdirect, directly接下来jiē xià láinext, following, what comes next接近jiē jìnto approach, to get close to, close to接着jiē zhethen, next, to carry on接到jiē dàoto receive, to get (a call, message, or notice)接触jiē chùto come into contact with, to get in touch, contact
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