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Characters, words, pinyin or English

垃 lā garbage

garbage; trash

How to remember 垃: 土 earth + 立 stand = garbage. The festival field is more earth than grass now, and volunteers stand in the mud all morning picking up garbage.

  • 2,628. most frequent character
  • HSK 4
  • 8 strokes
  • Radical 土

Component breakdown

垃 = 土 earth + 立 stand

  • 土 earth
  • 立 stand
The Gushi story

The festival field is more earth than grass now, and volunteers stand in the mud all morning picking up garbage.

How it is used

  • Occurs only in 垃圾 (lājī) - garbage, trash. Neither character is used alone.
  • 垃圾 is both literal ('trash') and figurative ('junk, worthless'): 垃圾食品 (lājī shípǐn) junk food, 垃圾邮件 (lājī yóujiàn) spam.
  • In Taiwan the same word is read lèsè - mainland standard is lājī.

Words with 垃

Example sentences

  • 我去扔垃圾。 Wǒ qù rēng lājī.I'm going to throw out the garbage.