稼 (jià): to sow grain, (farm) crop
稼 (jià) is a Chinese character meaning “to sow grain.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 禾 (semantic) and 家 (phonetic). It ranks #2630 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 稼 grain. Its radical form 禾 (grain) appears in many related characters such as 秋 (qiū, autumn), 科 (kē, branch of study), 租 (zū, to hire).
Definitions
- to sow grain
- (farm) crop
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 稼
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 庄稼地noun | zhuāng jia dì | crop land |
| 庄稼汉noun | zhuāng jia hàn | peasant |
| 庄稼人noun | zhuāng jia rén | (coll.) farmer |
| 庄稼活儿 | zhuāng jia huó r | farm work |
| 庄稼户儿 | zhuāng jia hù r | erhua variant of 莊稼戶|庄稼户 |
| 庄稼户 | zhuāng jia hù | wealthy farmer |
| 稼穑noun | jià sè | (literary) sowing and reaping |
稼 appears in 8 compound words: 13 as the first character, 13 as the last, and 75 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 稼 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
我在字典里查到了稼字的详细解释。
wǒ zài zì diǎn lǐ chá dào le jià zì de xiáng xì xiè shì .
I looked up the detailed explanation of the character "稼" in the dictionary.
物候有利于庄稼，对人却是另一番考验。
wù hòu yǒu lì yú zhuāng jià , duì rén què shì lìng yī fān kǎo yàn .
While the seasonal changes are beneficial to crops, they present a different kind of challenge for people.
记忆体封测稼动率屡高不坠 载板涨价2Q26不排除反映...
jì yì tǐ fēng cè jià dòng lǜ lǚ gāo bù zhuì zài bǎn zhǎng jià 2 Q 2 6 bù pái chú fǎn yìng . . .
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...中化”响应美管制中国制面板发酵 传京东方稼动率腰斩
. . . zhōng huà xiǎng yīng měi guǎn zhì zhōng guó zhì miàn bǎn fā jiào chuán jīng dōng fāng jià dòng lǜ yāo zhǎn
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联嘉投控墨西哥新厂稼动率加速冲 以光造“眼”布局机器人、EC...
lián jiā tóu kòng mò xī gē xīn hǎn jià dòng lǜ jiā sù chōng yǐ guāng zào yǎn bù jú jī qì rén , E C . . .
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它也会杀死庄稼。
Tā yě huì shāsǐ zhuāngjia.
It can also kill crops.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 禾 (grain) component
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