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节省

jiéshěng

to save

HSK 4 · Topic “Money and accounts”
A person saving coins
Memory picture

Characters in this word

节 jié

Strokes
5
Radical
艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

省 shěng

Strokes
9
Radical
目 — eye
Made of
少 few, little 目 eye
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 我们要节省水。 Wǒmen yào jiéshěng shuǐ. We need to save water.
  • 这样节省时间。 Zhèyàng jiéshěng shíjiān. This saves time.
  • 他很节省钱。 Tā hěn jiéshěng qián. He is good at saving money.

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