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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zī | zi1
English translation
now, here; this; time, year

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

Contains the radical

cǎo

Part of speech

Pronoun-like morpheme / 代词性语素 Dàicí xìng yǔsù

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Positional decomposition

八一幺幺

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de liǎn ,好象 hǎo xiàng 墨西哥 Mò xī gē 印第安人 Yìn dì ān rén (阿兹 Tái 克人) diāo jiā shì 着刻出来 chū lái de 塞巴斯蒂安 Sāi bā sī dì ān 的雕 xiàng .

He has the face as though an Aztec sculptor had attempted a portrait of Seba stian.

类比 lèi bǐ shì 频宽 pín kuān 赫兹 Hè zī 测量 cèliáng měi miǎo de 传送 chuán sòng 周期 zhōuqī .

Analogue bandwidth is measured in Hertz Hz, cycles per second.

如此 rú cǐ 崇高 chónggāo 地位 dìwèi de rén , yǒu diǎn ǎi , Ā 济兹.

For a man of such high rank, you're kind of short, Aziz.

海军 hǎi jūn 副官 fù guān 泰兹韦尔·谢泼德 中校 zhōng xiào 报告 bàogào le 滩头阵地 zhèndì 确实 quèshí de yòu 不妙 bù miào de 情况 qíngkuàng .

Commander Tazewell Shepard , the naval aide , gave a report , precise and bleak , on the beachhead.

hǎo , ” shuì , “ 汉兹先生 Xiānsheng , 真心诚意地想谈谈 tán tán . ”

'Why , yes,'says I,'with all my heart , Mr. Hands. Say on.'

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
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乌兹别克斯坦 Wū zī bié kè sī tǎn Uzbekistan烏茲別克斯坦
华尔兹 huá ěr zī waltz (dance) (loanword)華爾茲
洛佩兹 Luò pèi zī Lopez (name)洛佩茲
利兹 Lì zī Leeds利茲
乌兹别克 Wū zī bié kè Uzbek烏茲別克
赫兹 Hè zī Hertz (name)赫茲
霍尔木兹海峡 Huò ěr mù zī Hǎi xiá Strait of Hormuz霍爾木茲海峽
格罗兹尼 Gé luó zī ní Grozny, capital of Chechen Republic, Russia格羅茲尼
爱德华兹 Aì dé huá zī Edwards (name)愛德華茲
罗兹 Luó zī Łódź, third largest city of Poland羅茲
图卢兹 Tú lú zī Toulouse (city in France)圖盧茲
匹兹堡 Pǐ zī bǎo Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)匹茲堡
阿兹特克 Ā zī tè kè Aztec阿茲特克
尼米兹 Ní mǐ zī Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966), US admiral尼米茲

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