节 jié
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
节气
jiéqì
solar term
Characters in this word
气 qì
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 气 — air, gas
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 农民并不完全依赖日历，而是根据节气和土壤湿度安排播种。 Nóngmín bìng bù wánquán yīlài rìlì, ér shì gēnjù jiéqì hé tǔrǎng shīdù ānpái bōzhǒng. Farmers do not rely entirely on the calendar; they arrange sowing according to the solar terms and soil moisture.
- 立春是二十四节气里的第一个节气。 Lìchūn shì èrshísì jiéqì lǐ de dì yī ge jiéqì. The Beginning of Spring is the first of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 到了霜降这个节气，天气就明显变冷了。 Dào le shuāngjiàng zhège jiéqì, tiānqì jiù míngxiǎn biàn lěng le. By the solar term Frost's Descent, the weather clearly turns cold.