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A image of Sugarcane cuts
By
Thamizhpparithi Maari
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cut sugarcane
By
ruurmo
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CC BY-SA 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Sugarcane jbi gallery
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Jubair Bin Iqbal
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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甘蔗

gānzhe
noun #19,167

Measure Word

一根甘蔗 gēn

Meanings

  1. 1 sugar cane

About the ingredient

水果 Fruit

Long, jointed stalks. Dark-skinned eating cane is crisp, juicy and sweet, chewed for its juice or pressed into fresh juice; green-skinned cane is coarse and grown mainly for sugar.

Examples

HSK 6
广西是中国最大的甘蔗产地。
Guǎngxī shì Zhōngguó zuì dà de gānzhe chǎndì.
Guangxi is China's largest sugar cane producing region.
HSK 7-9
小贩在路边卖新鲜的甘蔗汁。
Xiǎofàn zài lùbiān mài xīnxiān de gānzhe zhī.
The street vendor was selling fresh sugar cane juice by the road.

Tips

memory
甘 (sweet) + 蔗 (cane) - literally 'sweet cane,' which is exactly what sugar cane is.

Stroke Order

甘 gān
蔗 zhè