接
jiē HSK2

receive

接 jiē
to receive verb
to receive a letter or package; to answer the phone; to take a call

我不接任何电话。

wǒ bù jiē rèn​hé diàn​huà.

I'm not taking any calls.

to connect verb
to join; to connect separate parts together; to extend something by adding a section; to graft
to follow verb
to continue a conversation or action; to follow in succession

鱼一个接一个地死去。

yú yī​ge jiē yī​ge de sǐ​qù.

One by one the fish died.

to come into contact verbnoun
to come close to; to be in touch with; to encounter or meet head-on
to pick up verb
to meet and pick someone up from a location, such as an airport or station; to welcome a guest

在机场会有人接你。

zài jī​chǎng huì yǒu rén jiē nǐ.

Someone will meet you at the airport.

to take over verb
to take over a task or job from someone else; to succeed someone in a position

我接了这个案子。

wǒ jiē le zhè​ge àn​zi.

I took the case.

to catch verb
to catch an object being thrown; to take hold of something; to support or take something with one's hands
surname
a Chinese surname

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
247th most common 906.8 per million
Movie subtitles
222nd most common 792.3 per million appears in 96% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
327.0 per million appears in 67% of films
Written text
230.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+63A5

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)