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zhì Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zhì | zhi4
English translation
infantile
young
old variant of zhì [zhì]
variant of zhì [zhì]
young, immature; childhood

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About zhì

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

zhì

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

grain

Etymology of zhì

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

禾隹

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

zhuī

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and zhuī represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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Example sentences using zhì

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辛楣 觉得 juéde zhè 问题 wèntí 无可 wú kě cāi de 幼稚 yòuzhì .

Hsin - mei felt the question was naive beyond a doubt.

hěn 幼稚 yòuzhì de shì 中性 zhōng xìng 粒细胞 lì xì bāo de chéng 马蹄形 mǎ tí xíng ,不分 bù fēn xié .

The immature neutrophil has a nonsegmented nucleus in shape of a horseshoe.

竟然 jìngrán 幼稚 yòuzhì Lián 这种 zhè zhǒng 谎言 huǎng yán dōu 相信 xiāngxìn .

He is so naive as to believe such a lie.

音乐会 yīn yuè huì de 组织者 zǔ zhī zhě 指称 zhǐ chēng gāi 乐队 yuè duì de 行为 xíngwéi 愚蠢 yúchǔn 幼稚 yòuzhì

Concert organisers branded the group's actions as puerile.

45 suì de 达芙妮· luò 外貌 wài mào 言谈 yán tán dōu Huán xiàng 稚气未脱 zhì qì wèi tuō de 小女生

Daphne Farlow, at forty-five, still looked and spoke like an overgrown schoolgirl.

Words with zhì

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
幼稚 yòuzhì young幼稚 yòuzhì
稚嫩 zhì nèn puerile稚嫩 zhì nèn
zhì young zhì
稚气 zhì qì infantile稚氣
幼稚园 yòu zhì yuán kindergarten (Tw)幼稚園
稚气未脱 zhì qì wèi tuō still possessing the innocence of childhood (idiom)稚氣未脫
童稚 tóng zhì child童稚 tóng zhì
稚子 zhì zǐ young child稚子 zhì zǐ
稚拙 zhì zhuō young and clumsy稚拙 zhì zhuō
稚弱 zhì ruò immature and feeble稚弱 zhì ruò
稚虫 zhì chóng naiad稚蟲

zhì Decomposition & Compounds

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zhì Decomposition

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