HSK 6 · Nature

庄稼 zhuāngjia “crops” in Chinese

Traditional 莊稼

What 庄稼 means

  1. crops
  2. farm crop

How to say 庄稼

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale庄zhuāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own稼jianeutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

庄稼 in a sentence

  1. 今年雨水多，庄稼长得很好。

    Jīnnián yǔshuǐ duō, zhuāngjia zhǎng de hěn hǎo.

    There’s been plenty of rain this year, and the crops are growing well.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 农民每天在地里照顾庄稼。

    Nóngmín měitiān zài dì lǐ zhàogu zhuāngjia.

    Farmers tend their crops in the fields every day.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 庄稼 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 庄 (zhuāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
庄zhuāngfarmstead
  • 广shelter · guǎngMeaning part
  • 土earth · tǔ

广 hints at the meaning (shelter); 壯 () hints at the sound. Compare it with zhuāng.

The character 稼 (jià) with each of its parts in a different colour
稼jiàto sow grainlight in 庄稼
  • 禾grain · héMeaning part
  • 家house · jiāSound part

禾 hints at the meaning (grain); 家 (jiā) hints at the sound. Compare it with jia.

How to write 庄稼

庄 6 strokes · 稼 15 strokes

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

Words related to 庄稼

Words with 庄

庄严zhuāngyán · solemn庄重zhuāngzhòng · serious

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岸àn · bank彩虹cǎihóng · rainbow翅膀chìbǎng · wing池塘chítáng · pond支流zhīliú · tributary (river)种植zhòngzhí · to plant种子zhǒngzi · seed株zhū · (measure word for plants and trees)

FAQs

庄稼 (zhuāngjia) means “crops” or “farm crop”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhuāngjia: zhuāng with a 1st tone, then jia with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 庄稼 is written 莊稼. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhuangjia with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 庄稼 from the suggestions. Typing zhuangjia into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
庄稼 is an HSK 6 word in the 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.