垃圾
Meaning
- trash
- refuse
- garbage
Example sentence
我不吃垃圾食品。
I don't eat junk food.
Characters in 垃圾
- 垃 lā rubbish — a bound character, occurring in this one word and nowhere else
- 圾 jī the other half of that pair; neither character carries the meaning alone
垃 and 圾 both mean rubbish and neither appears in another word in this deck. A bound pair, like 咖啡 and 苹果 — the meaning lives in the two together.