准

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to allow; to grant; in accordance with; in the light of

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HSK 3.0: Level 1
Old HSK: Level 2
Strokes: 10
Radical: 冫 +8
Structure: Left–right 左右
Traditional: 准
Common rank: #694
Unicode: U+51C6

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Formation & memory

Break the character into parts you already know.

How 准 is formed

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

冫 meaning “water in a spirit level” + 隹 sound ( zhuī )

Components 冫隹

How to remember it

standard · Heisig RSH #539

ice + turkey

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 准

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
准备	zhǔn bèi	preparation; to prepare; to intend; to be about to; reserve (fund)
大地水准面	dà dì shuǐ zhǔn miàn	geoid
美国国家标准学会	Měi guó Guó jiā Biāo zhǔn Xué huì	American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
德国标准化学会	Dé guó Biāo zhǔn huà Xué huì	Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN); German Institute for Standardization
国家标准化管理委员会	Guó jiā Biāo zhǔn huà Guǎn lǐ Wěi yuán huì	Standardization Administration of PRC (SAC)
格林尼治标准时间	Gé lín ní zhì Biāo zhǔn Shí jiān	Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
市场准入	shì chǎng zhǔn rù	access to markets
格林威治标准时间	Gé lín wēi zhì Biāo zhǔn Shí jiān	(Tw) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
国家标准中文交换码	guó jiā biāo zhǔn Zhōng wén jiāo huàn mǎ	CNS 11643, Chinese character coding adopted in Taiwan, 1986-1992
说不准	shuō bù zhǔn	unable to say; can't say precisely
国际人权标准	guó jì rén quán biāo zhǔn	international human rights norms
看准机会	kàn zhǔn jī huì	to watch for an opportunity; to see one's chance to
会计准则理事会	kuài jì zhǔn zé lǐ shì huì	accounting standards council
国家标准码	guó jiā biāo zhǔn mǎ	Guo Biao or GB, the standard PRC encoding, abbr. 國標碼\|国标码
吃不准	chī bù zhǔn	to be unsure about a matter; to be uncertain; to be unable to make sense of sth
标准普尔	Biāo zhǔn Pǔ ěr	S&P (formerly Standard & Poor's), financial services company
不标准	bù biāo zhǔn	nonstandard; incorrect; (of one's speech) poor; woeful (not in keeping with correct pronun…
不准	bù zhǔn	not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit
一准	yī zhǔn	variant of 一準\|一准[yi1 zhun3]
一准	yī zhǔn	certainly

Sound family

Characters sharing the sound component 隹 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
隹 sound part	zhuī	short-tailed bird; sparrow
维	wéi	to preserve, to maintain, to hold together
推	tuī	to push; to expel; to drive; to decline
堆	duī	crowd, heap, pile, mass; to pile up; measure word for things in piles or stacks
锥	zhuī	gimlet, drill, awl; to drill, to bore
淮	huái	a river in Anhui province
椎	zhuī	spine, vertebra; hammer, mallet
稚	zhì	young, immature; childhood
谁	shéi	who? whom? whose? anyone?
濯	zhuó	to cleanse, to rinse, to wash out
睢	suī	to gaze at, to stare at; uninhibited
帷	wéi	curtain, screen, tent
擢	zhuó	to pull up, to raise; to select
槜	zuì	white plum
骓	zhuī	piebald horse
碓	duì	pestle
萑	huán	grass, hay, straw