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Definitions
- 1. letter
- 2. symbol
- 3. character
- 4. word
- 5. courtesy or style name traditionally given to males aged 20 in dynastic China
Words Containing 字
crossroads
name (of a person or thing)
Chinese character dictionary (containing entries for single characters, contrasted with a 詞典|词典[cí diǎn], which has entries for words of one or more characters)
caption
letter (of the alphabet)
wording
handwriting
calligraphic style
office building
writing desk
numeral
character
Chinese character
simplified Chinese character, as opposed to traditional Chinese character 繁體字|繁体字[fán tǐ zì]
to sign (one's name)
traditional Chinese character
shop, firm, or brand of merchandise with a long-established reputation
to learn to read
(financial) deficit
pyramid (building or structure)
incorrectly written or mispronounced characters
T-account (accounting)
thong (underwear)
dispensing praise or blame with a single word (idiom)
each word is a teardrop (idiom)
(in praise of a piece of writing or calligraphy) each character is perfect
word for word
to not mention a single word (about sth) (idiom)
in a row
see 一字不漏[yī zì bù lòu]
headband
without missing a word
totally illiterate
one who can correct a misread or misspelt character and thus be your master
(orthography) consistent words (e.g. \dean\, \bean\, and \lean\, where \-ean\ is pronounced the same in each case)
T-girder
T-square
T-shaped
hammer pick
T-junction
thong (underwear)
T-step (basic dance position, with the feet forming a T shape)
thirty six initial consonants of Song phonetic theory
Three Character Classic, 13th century reading primer consisting of Confucian tenets in lines of 3 characters
(orthography) inconsistent words (e.g. \through\, \bough\ and \rough\, where \-ough\ is not pronounced the same in each case)
illiterate
China Japan Korea (CJK) unified ideographs
Zhonghua Zihai, the most comprehensive Chinese character dictionary with 85,568 entries, compiled in 1994
Z-shaped; zigzag
zigzag road
five stroke input method for Chinese characters by numbered strokes, invented by Wang Yongmin 王永民 in 1983
tic-tac-toe
V-shape; chevron; herringbone
flip-flops
Renzidong palaeolithic archaeological site at Fanchang 繁昌[fán chāng], Anhui
code name
swung dash
exception(s)
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
nonstandard form of a Chinese character
personal digital assistant (PDA)
see 通假字[tōng jiǎ zì]
loan character (one of the Six Methods 六書|六书 of forming Chinese characters)
megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes)
optical character recognition (OCR)
intoeing
the character 8 or 八
divination based on the eight characters of one's birth date
shape resembling the character 八 or 8
a policy expressed as an eight-character slogan
step with feet splayed outwards
lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[bā] (idiom)
sloping eyebrows, formed like character for \eight\",2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46035,30970,splayfoot,2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46036,30971,lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八[bā] has been written (idiom),2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46037,30971,fig. things have not even gotten started yet; nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet,2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46038,30972,mustache shaped like character 八,2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46039,30973,mustache shaped like character 八,2025-02-14 13:18:20,2025-02-14 13:18:20 46040,30974,Ba Jia Jiang
the six-syllable Sanskrit mantra of Avalokiteshvara bodhisattva (i.e. om mani padme hum)
name of \walk slowly\ component 夂[zhǐ] in Chinese characters
obscure word
mispronounced or wrongly written character
to tattoo
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (computing)
radical 匚[fāng] (Kangxi radical 22)
16-character formula, esp. Mao Zedong's mantra on guerrilla warfare: 敵進我退，敵駐我擾，敵疲我打，敵退我追|敌进我退，敌驻我扰，敌疲我打，敌退我追[dí jìn wǒ tuì , dí zhù wǒ rǎo , dí pí wǒ dǎ , dí tuì wǒ zhuī] when the enemy advances we retreat; when the enemy makes camp we harass; when the enemy is exhausted we fight; and when the enemy retreats we pursue
cross road
cruciform
cross
crucifiction
crosshairs
cross-stitch
Cruciferae or Brassicaceae (taxonomic family including Brassica etc whose flowers have a cross of 4 petals)
crusaders
the Crusades
the Crusades
turnstile
pickaxe
Phillips screwdriver (i.e. with cross slit)
Thousand Character Classic, 6th century poem used as a traditional reading primer
kilobyte
(astronomy) the Southern Cross
name of \cliff\ 厂 radical in simplified Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 27)
character with opposite meaning
ancient character
paleography
(typography) ligature
a Chinese character formed by combining existing elements - i.e. a combined ideogram 會意|会意 or radical plus phonetic 形聲|形声
gigabyte (2^30 or approximately a billion bytes)
name of the radical 冂[jiōng] in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 13)
synonym
Chinese character that is pronounced the same (as another character)
diction; enunciation
to pronounce (clearly or otherwise)
to bite words and chew characters (idiom); punctilious about minutiae of wording
Vietnam characters (like Chinese characters but native to Vietnam)
unique compound
single Chinese character
Chinese character (Hanzi)
square face
Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a romanization system for Chinese devised by Y.R. Chao and others in 1925-26
crossword
splayed feet
bow legs
multibyte
character having several readings and meanings
character with two or more readings
big-character poster
capital letters
character set
words
glyph
font
every word a gem (idiom); magnificent writing
piece of paper with short note
copybook (for calligraphy)
Zihui, Chinese character dictionary with 33,179 entries, released in 17th century
written pledge
number of written characters; number of words; word count
weighing every word
character book (i.e. school primer)
Zilin, Chinese character dictionary with 12,824 entries from ca. 400 AD
component of a Chinese character
stem compound
common coding for components of Chinese character
brief note
model or template character
to enunciate beautifully (in speaking or singing) (idiom)
(numeric, data) field
alphabet
word that contains one or more letters of an alphabet (e.g. HSK, PK, WTO, PO文, PM2.5, γ射線|γ射线[γ shè xiàn])
alphabetical order
etymology (of a non-Chinese word)
the strokes of a character
character code
character (computing)
string (computing)
character set (e.g. ASCII 美國資訊交換標準碼|美国资讯交换标准码 or Unicode 統一碼|统一码)
(computing) byte
byte count
ByteDance, Beijing-based Internet technology company, founded in 2012
wastepaper basket
see 字紙簍|字纸篓[zì zhǐ lǒu]
grapheme
block (of data)
meaning of a character
serif
alphanumeric code
character size
between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning
letters or words
tone of a character
letter puzzle
font weight
character set
literal
phonetic value of a character
first letter of a word or serial number
prefix
to write characters
writing tablet
lowercase (letters)
I-beam
I-beam
\top of 左 character\ component in Chinese characters
Greek alphabet
everyday words
sans serif (typography)
the Kangxi Dictionary, named after the Kangxi Emperor, who in 1710 ordered its compilation, containing 47,035 single-character entries
phono-semantic compound character
(literary) (of a young lady) to be awaiting betrothal
(last line of the poem 聲聲慢|声声慢[shēng shēng màn] by Song poet Li Qingzhao 李清照[lǐ qīng zhào])
to type
typist
typewriter
to have one's fortune read
fortune telling by unpicking Chinese characters
Latin alphabet
the alphabet
delaying tactics
to spell