橙汁

chéng zhī · HSK 7

orange juice

🍊🧃 chéng = orange + zhī = juice — the fruit's name doubles as the color

橙 (chéng) means both the fruit and the color orange. 汁 (zhī) means juice or liquid extract. So 橙汁 is literally orange-juice, same compound logic as English.

汁 — water radical 氵 + ten 十
A semantic-phonetic compound. The water radical 氵 signals a liquid, while 十 (originally read with a sound close to zhī) provides the phonetic cue. Together they denote sap or juice — any liquid squeezed from a plant or food.

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