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香蕉

xiāng jiāo 1–1

banana

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
香 · 蕉
Syllables
2
xiāng jiāo
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 5,473

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 香xiāng9 strokesHSK 3fragrant, sweet-smelling; incense; Kangxi radical 186
  • 蕉jiāo16 strokesHSK 3banana; plantain

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

Example sentences

  • 我在吃香蕉。

    Wǒ zài chī xiāng jiāo

    I am eating a banana.

  • 香蕉很好吃。

    Xiāng jiāo hěn hǎo chī

    Bananas are delicious.

  • 我是个香蕉。

    Wǒ shì gè xiāng jiāo

    I am a banana.

  • 你吃过香蕉派吗？

    Nǐ chī guo xiāng jiāo pài ma

    Have you ever eaten a banana pie?

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

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