HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Places

街 jiē “street” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 街 means

  1. street

Measure word 条 tiáo · 一条街 yì tiáo jiē

How to say 街

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale街jiē1st tone, high and level

街 in a sentence

  1. 我在街上遇到他。

    Wǒ zài jiē shàng yùdào tā.

    I ran into him in the street.

    Sentence #1019864 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你想和我一起去逛街吗？

    Nǐ xiǎng hé wǒ yìqǐ qù guàngjiē ma?

    Would you like to go shopping with me?

    Sentence #9959850 from Tatoeba

  3. 他的房子在街对面。

    Tā de fángzi zài jiē duìmiàn.

    His house is across the street.

    Sentence #848555 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 街 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 街 (jiē) with each of its parts in a different colour
街jiēstreet
  • 行walk · xíngMeaning part
  • 圭jade tablet · guīSound part

行 hints at the meaning (walk); 圭 (guī) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiē.

How to write 街

街 12 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

街 (jiē) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 街 (jiē). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 街

Words with 街

街道jiēdào · street

More words: Places & Getting Around

走路zǒulù · to walk中zhōng · middle汽车qìchē · car房子fángzi · house室shì · room北běi · north南方nánfāng · the south花园huāyuán · garden

FAQs

街 (jiē) means “street”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it jiē: jiē with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 街 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 条 (tiáo). For example, one street is 一条街 (yì tiáo jiē).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jie with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 街 from the suggestions. Typing jie into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
街 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.