节

节

"节" means "festival," "holiday," "section," "segment," or "node."

In this sentence, '节' is used as a shorthand for '节日', which means 'festival' or 'holiday'.

今天是节日，我们计划去庆祝。

Today is a festival, we plan to celebrate.

Here, '节' refers to sections or nodes, often seen as part of a segmented structure like a tree's rings or growth nodes.

树的每一节都记录着它的成长历史。

Every section of the tree records its growth history.

In this usage, '节' is part of '节课', representing a class period or session.

我们在今天这节课学习了新词汇。

In today’s lesson, we learned new vocabulary.