(jiē) - receive, pick up, connect, catch in Mandarin
jiēTraditional: 接
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.
Where this fits
Appears in 7 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 接.
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