兹
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(literary) this; (literary) now; (literary) year
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 八 +7
- Structure
- Top–middle–bottom 上中下
- Traditional
- 茲
- Common rank
- #1,121
- Unicode
- U+5179
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Formation & memory
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Words with 兹
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兹事体大 | this is no small thing (idiom); to have a serious matter at hand | |
| 阿兹特克 | Aztec | |
| 西米德兰兹 | West Midlands, UK county, capital Birmingham 伯明翰[Bo2 ming2 han4] | |
| 索尔兹伯里平原 | Salisbury plain | |
| 索尔兹伯里石环 | Stonehenge; Salisbury stone circle | |
| 格罗兹尼 | Grozny, capital of Chechen Republic, Russia | |
| 拉兹莫夫斯基 | Razumovsky (name); Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (1752-1836), Russian diplomat | |
| 乌兹别克人 | Uzbek (person) | |
| 华兹华斯 | surname Wordsworth; William Wordsworth (1770–1850), English romantic poet | |
| 阿布哈兹 | Abkhazia | |
| 兹卡病毒 | (Tw) Zika virus | |
| 乌兹别克族 | the Uzbek people (race) | |
| 爱德华兹 | (name) Edwards | |
| 尼米兹号 | Nimitz class, US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, 8 in commission since 1975 | |
| 法兹鲁拉 | Maulana Fazlullah, Pakistan Taleban leader | |
| 达克瓦兹 | (loanword) dacquoise (a French dessert) | |
| 华尔兹 | (loanword) waltz (dance) | |
| 加兹尼 | Ghazni (Afghan province) | |
| 基布兹 | kibbutz | |
| 波兹南 | Poznan (city in Poland) |
Sound family
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