籍 jí
- Strokes
- 20
- Radical
- ⺮ — bamboo
- Made of
- ⺮ bamboo 耤 to plow
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
籍贯
jíguàn
ancestral/native place
Characters in this word
贯 guàn
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 贝 — sea shell
- Made of
- 毌 old form of 貫 贝 sea shell
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 表格要求填写籍贯，但申请人更关心这一项是否会影响录取。 Biǎogé yāoqiú tiánxiě jíguàn, dàn shēnqǐngrén gèng guānxīn zhè yí xiàng shìfǒu huì yǐngxiǎng lùqǔ. The form asks applicants to fill in their ancestral place, but they are more concerned about whether this item will affect admission.
- 我的籍贯是四川，但我从小在北京长大。 Wǒ de jíguàn shì Sìchuān, dàn wǒ cóng xiǎo zài Běijīng zhǎngdà. My family originally comes from Sichuan, but I grew up in Beijing.
- 登记表上的籍贯一栏，他不知道该怎么填。 Dēngjì biǎo shàng de jíguàn yì lán, tā bù zhīdào gāi zěnme tián. He didn't know what to write in the native place box on the registration form.
Related words
- 国籍 guójí nationality; citizenship
- 书籍 shūjí books
- 古籍 gǔjí ancient books; classical texts
- 外籍 wàijí foreign; of foreign nationality
- 祖籍 zǔjí ancestral home; place of origin
- 一贯 yíguàn consistent, unswerving
- 贯彻 guànchè to carry out; to implement
- 贯穿 guànchuān to run through; to permeate
- 贯通 guàntōng to connect through; to understand thoroughly
- 连贯 liánguàn to connect coherently; coherent
- 后裔 hòuyì descendant; offspring
- 出身 chūshēn to come from; family background