尾
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tail; remainder; remnant; extremity; sixth of the 28 constellations; classifier for fish
Formation & memory
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Words with 尾
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 有头无尾 | (idiom) to fail to finish off what one started | |
| 有头有尾 | where there's a start, there's a finish (idiom); to finish once one starts sth; to carry t… | |
| 马尾区 | Mawei, a district of Fuzhou City 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 马尾水 | Mawei river through Fuzhou city | |
| 尾子 | tail; end; small change; odd sum remaining after large round number | |
| 红头长尾山雀 | (bird species of China) black-throated bushtit (Aegithalos concinnus) | |
| 尾水 | tailwater; outflow (from mill or power plant) | |
| 尾生 | Wei Sheng (legendary character who waited for his love under a bridge until he was drowned… | |
| 马尾 | see 馬尾區|马尾区[Ma3 wei3 Qu1] | |
| 马尾 | ponytail (hairstyle); horse's tail; slender fibers like horse's tail (applies to various p… | |
| 机尾 | the rear (tail) of a plane etc | |
| 尾气 | exhaust; emissions | |
| 发尾 | hair ends | |
| 长尾 | long tail | |
| 尾数 | remainder (after rounding a number); decimal part (of number after the decimal point); man… | |
| 北长尾山雀 | (bird species of China) long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) | |
| 语尾 | (grammar) suffix | |
| 眼尾 | outer corner of the eye | |
| 尾巴 | tail; colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5] | |
| 尾流 | wake (trailing behind a ship, airplane etc); slipstream |
Sound family
These characters use 尾 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尾 sound part | tail; extremity, end; back, rear | |
| 娓 | agreeable, compliant; to comply, to go along with |