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zhuāng

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zhuāng Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zhuāng | zhuang1
English translation
stake, post; matter, affair

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About zhuāng

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Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

zhuāng

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Isolated measure word / 量词 liàng cí Liàngcí

Learning hint

wood

Etymology of zhuāng

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

木庄

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

zhuāng

Explanation

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

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Example sentences using zhuāng

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dào le 树桩 shù zhuāng shǎng , jìng le .

I barked my shin on a tree stump.

本来 běnlái ma , 一切 yīqiè dōu shì 个人 gèrén 问题 wèntí ,生意 shēngyì shǎng de zhuāng zhuāng 一件件,都是个人问题.

" Tom , don't let anybody kid you . It's all personal, every . bit of business.

他们 tā men 划出 xiǎo kuài 地皮 dì pí 用于 yòng yú 建造 jiàn zào 儿童 értóng 游乐场 yóu lè chǎng , bìng zài 周围 zhōuwéi shǎng le 木桩 mù zhuāng .

They've set aside a small area as a children's playground and staked it off.

伊丽莎白 Yī lì shā bái 夏绿之间 zhī jiān 从此 cóngcǐ jìng yǒu le céng 隔膜 gé mó ,彼此 bǐcǐ dōu 不便 bù biàn 提到 tí dào 这桩 shì .

Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint which kept them mutually silent on the subject.

āi , rén yāo shì 那么 nà me 要命 yàomìng , měi 一桩芝麻 zhī ma de shì dōu 可以 kěyǐ 惹恼 rě nǎo .

Well, when you are hot, that way, every little thing irritates you.

Words with zhuāng

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
zhuāng stump zhuāng
木桩 mù zhuāng stake木樁
树桩 shù zhuāng tree stump樹樁
打桩机 dǎ zhuāng jī pile driver (machinery)打樁機
打桩 dǎ zhuāng to drive piles into打樁
桩脚 zhuāng jiǎo pier foundation (architecture)樁腳
标桩 biāo zhuāng (marking) stake標樁
缆桩 lǎn zhuāng mooring bollard纜樁

zhuāng Decomposition & Compounds

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