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zhēng

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zhēng Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zhēng | zheng1
English translation
to summon, to recruit; levy, tax; journey; invasion

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About zhēng

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Number of strokes

15

Traditional form

zhēng

Contains the radical

chì

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

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Etymology of zhēng

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

chì Shān 一王攵

Semantic compound

chì

Phonetic compound

zhēng

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Example sentences using zhēng

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因此 yīncǐ ,只要 zhǐyào 春天 chūn tiān 一到, jiù xiàng zhēng 复活节 Fù huó jié de 脚步 jiǎo bù 我们 wǒmen 不远 luō !

As long as there is spring, there will always be Easter!

zhēng , gōng 年轻 niánqīng 夫妇 fūfù de 住房 zhù fáng .

Wanted, accommodation for a young married couple.

Words with zhēng

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
zhēng see also zhēng | zhēng [zhēng] zhēng
宫商角徵羽 gōng shāng jué zhǐ yǔ pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la宮商角徵羽
变徵之声 biàn zhǐ zhī shēng modified fifth note of the pentatonic scale變徵之聲

zhēng Decomposition & Compounds

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