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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zī | zi1
English translation
mustache

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Number of strokes

16

Traditional form

Contains the radical

biāo

Part of speech

Isolated morpheme / 语素 yǔ sù Yǔsù

Learning hint

hair

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

髟此

Semantic compound

biāo

Phonetic compound

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不行 bù xíng , ” xìng de 忧愁 yōu chóu de shuì ; dàn 随即 suíjí 咽住 yàn zhù le , niǎn zhāo chún biān jǐn yǒu de 几根二三分 cháng 的髭.

" Bad,'said Wu looking worried and toying with his moustache.

只见撇朝下 de wǎng shǎng sǒng ,露出 lù chū le 一副难看 nán kàn de 苦笑 kǔ xiào .

The drooping mustache lifts in a nasty sad smile.

已经 yǐjīng 决定 juédìng 留起络腮胡子 luò sāi hú zi

He has decided to grow a beard and a moustache.

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