jié

joint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term (one of the 24 divisions of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar)

measure wordnoun(动) HSK 3.0 · Band 3 trad. 節

Watch it being written

Every character draws itself, stroke by stroke. Then grab the brush: trace it yourself and hear the word when you finish.

Build with these blocks

Chinese words snap together like bricks. Every word below shares a character with this one, so you are already halfway to knowing it.

See it in sentences

这节课很有意思。

This class is very interesting.

一节课四十五分钟。

One class period is forty five minutes.