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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
cí | ci2
English translation
thatching; caltrop, Tribulus terrestris

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

Contains the radical

cǎo

Part of speech

Place name / 地名 dì míng Dìmíng

Learning hint

grass

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

艹次

Semantic compound

cǎo

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. cǎo represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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盖茨 Gài cí de jiǎo 不耐烦 bùnàifán 地连 qiāo le shēng , 引起 yǐnqǐ 汤姆 Tāng mǔ 突然 tūrán qiáo le yǎn .

Gatsby's foot beat a short , restless tattoo and Tom eyed him suddenly.

乌尔 Wū ěr qiāo le 这个 zhè ge 作家 zuòjiā de 竹杠, yòng le de Shū , què zhǐ gěi 微不足道 wēibùzúdào de 一点点 yī diǎn diǎn Qián .

Woltz had chiseled the guy , given him peanuts for the book.

盖茨 Gài cí 脱口而出 tuō kǒu ér chū de 回答 huídá 至少 zhìshǎo 使 shǐ 我们 wǒmen 大家 dàjiā yòu lèng le 一分 Zhōng .

The automatic quality of Gatsby's answer set us all back at least another minute.

拉宾 nuò 维茨步入 bù rù cāng Fáng .

Rubinovitz stepped into the cabin.

盖茨 Gài cí 垫子 diàn zi gāng zài 肩上, Xiàng 游泳池 yóu yǒng chí zǒu .

Gatsby shouldered the mattress and started for the pool.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
to thatch (a roof)
盖茨 Gài cí Gates (name)蓋茨
波茨坦 Bō cí tǎn Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany波茨坦 Bō cí tǎn
罗伯茨 Luó bó cí Roberts羅伯茨
霍格沃茨 Huò gé wò cí Hogwarts (Harry Potter)霍格沃茨 Huò gé wò cí
博茨瓦纳 Bó cí wǎ nà Botswana博茨瓦納
阿尔茨海默 Ā ěr cí hǎi mò Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist阿爾茨海默
萨尔茨堡 Sà ěr cí bǎo Salzburg薩爾茨堡
菲茨杰拉德 Fēi cí jié lā dé Fitzgerald (name)菲茨傑拉德
托洛茨基 Tuō luò cí jī Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940託洛茨基
伊尔库茨克 Yī ěr kù cí kè Irkutsk伊爾庫茨克
盖茨比 Gài cí bǐ Gatsby蓋茨比

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