No. 1,813 in Chinese
节
"节" means "festival," "holiday," "section," "segment," or "node."
In a sentence
今天是节日，我们计划去庆祝。
Today is a festival, we plan to celebrate.
In this sentence, '节' is used as a shorthand for '节日', which means 'festival' or 'holiday'.
树的每一节都记录着它的成长历史。
Every section of the tree records its growth history.
Here, '节' refers to sections or nodes, often seen as part of a segmented structure like a tree's rings or growth nodes.
我们在今天这节课学习了新词汇。
In today’s lesson, we learned new vocabulary.
In this usage, '节' is part of '节课', representing a class period or session.
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