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(jiē) - receive, pick up, connect, catch in Mandarin

jiē

Traditional: 接

Line drawing of 接
Coloured illustration of 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

Stroke order for 接

Examples

I'll go to the airport to pick you up.

Please answer the phone.

She received good news.

I am going to the airport to pick up a guest.

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.

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This word is part of lesson 16.