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垃圾

lā jī 1–1

trash; refuse; garbage; (coll.) of poor quality; Taiwan pr. [lè sè]

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
垃 · 圾
Syllables
2
lā jī
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,777

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 垃lā8 strokesHSK 4garbage, refuse, waste
  • 圾jī6 strokesHSK 4garbage, rubbish; shaking; danger

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我不吃垃圾食品。

    Wǒ bù chī lā jī shí pǐn

    I don't eat junk food.

  • 别在这儿扔垃圾。

    Bié zài zhè r rēng lā jī

    Don't throw trash here.

  • 垃圾真的开始成堆了。

    Lā jī zhēn de kāi shǐ chéng duī le

    The trash is really starting to pile up.

  • 别忘了把垃圾拿出去。

    Bié wàng le bǎ lā jī ná chū qù

    Don't forget to take out the garbage.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 垃圾. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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