桔
jié
#3,298 most
frequent character
used in 桔梗[jie2geng3]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
桔 has 木 tree as its meaning part and 吉 jí as its sound part. Read jié, it first meant a kind of tree, then grew to water bucket. Read jú, it is a sound loan used as a variant of 橘 jú.
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