莖
jīng HSK7

stem

茎 莖 jīng
stem noun
the main part of a plant that supports branches, leaves, and flowers and carries nutrients

准备香菜时，将叶子与茎分开，仅使用叶子。

zhǔn​bèi xiāng​cài shí, jiāng yè​zi yǔ jīng fēn kāi, jǐn shǐ​yòng yè​zi.

When preparing cilantro, separate the leaves from the stems and only use the leaves.

stem-like object
something resembling a stalk, such as a tool handle or the penis
[long thin objects]
(literary) a measure word for long, thin things like hairs or blades of grass

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,675th most common 15.3 per million
Movie subtitles
2,634th most common 6.66 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.720 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
5.61 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
茎
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+8396

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