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芥: mustard

By July 29, 2015Language-Learning

 

芥 jiè | gài


: mustard

Kun Reading

芥 | ごみ gomi OR あくた akuta

noun
: rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse

On Reading

カイ kai

ケ ke

 Usage:

芥末 jie4mo: mustard; wasabi
芥菜 jie4cai4: mustard (Brassica juncea)
[芥子菜 | からしな karashina: Indian mustard; leaf mustard; mustard plant]
拾芥 shi2jie4: to pick up cress; fig. something easy to do; a piece of cake
荊[荆]芥 jing1jie4: schizonepeta, herb used in Chinese medicine
水田芥 shui3tian2 jie4: watercress
芥藍[蓝] gai4lan2: Chinese broccoli; Chinese kale; cabbage mustard; Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra
[芥藍 | カイラン kairan: kai-lan; gai-lan; Chinese broccoli]



Japanese common word
芥袋 | ごみぶくろ gomi bukuro: garbage bag

芥箱 | ごみばこ gomi bako: garbage can; garbage box; rubbish bin; trash can; dust bin; dustbin

洋芥子 | ようがらし yougarashi: mustard

厨芥 | ちゅうかい chuukai: kitchen waste
廚餘[厨余] chu2yu2: kitchen waste; food waste (recycling)

芥虫 | ごみむし gomimushi
: (kana only) ground beetle; carabid (esp. of superfamily Caraboidea, but excluding subfamily Carabinae)
: Anisodactylus signatus (species of ground beetle)



Chinese expression
視如土芥 [视如土芥] shi4 ru2 tu3 jie4
: to regard as useless; to view as no better than weeds

 Etymology:


形声 Pictophonetic.
艹 (cao4: grass radical 140) suggests the meaning while
(jie4: between; forerunner; harbinger) provides the sound.



 Examples:
none applicable

Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary