彻
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thorough; penetrating; to pervade; to pass through
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 彳 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 徹
- Common rank
- #2,149
- Unicode
- U+5F7B
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
thorough · Heisig RSH #1992
queue + 切 cut
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 彻
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 通天彻地 | to know all under heaven; exceptionally talented (idiom) | |
| 罗彻斯特 | Rochester | |
| 斯彻达尔 | Stjørdal (city in Trøndelag, Norway) | |
| 克赖斯特彻奇 | Christchurch (New Zealand city) | |
| 曼彻斯特编码 | Manchester encoding | |
| 曼彻斯特 | Manchester | |
| 萨斯喀彻温 | Saskatchewan province, Canada | |
| 大彻大悟 | to achieve supreme enlightenment or nirvana (Buddhism) | |
| 彻夜不眠 | to be sleepless all night | |
| 通彻 | to understand completely | |
| 彻头彻尾 | lit. from head to tail (idiom); thoroughgoing; through and through; out and out; from top … | |
| 清彻 | variant of 清澈[qing1 che4] | |
| 彻骨 | to the bone; to the marrow; fig. to a very large degree | |
| 彻底 | thorough; thoroughly; complete | |
| 彻夜 | the whole night | |
| 彻查 | to investigate thoroughly | |
| 贯彻始终 | to follow through; to carry through to the end | |
| 透彻 | penetrating; thorough; incisive | |
| 响彻 | to resound; to resonate | |
| 凯彻 | variant of 愷撒|恺撒, Caesar (emperor) |