杖
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a staff; a rod; cane; walking stick; to flog with a stick (old)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 木 +3
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 杖
- Common rank
- #2,539
- Unicode
- U+6756
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Formation & memory
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Words with 杖
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 杖头木偶 | zhangtou wooden rod puppetry | |
| 登山杖 | trekking pole | |
| 手杖 | cane; CL:把[ba3] | |
| 法杖 | magic staff | |
| 明杖 | white cane (used by the blind) | |
| 权杖 | scepter | |
| 铁杖 | steel staff; steel stick | |
| 刑杖 | rod used for flogging offenders | |
| 杖刑 | beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment) | |
| 魔杖 | magic wand | |
| 杖责 | (literary) to punish by beating with a rod | |
| 盲杖 | white cane (used by the blind) | |
| 锡杖 | (Buddhism) khakkhara; staff topped with metal rings, traditionally carried by Buddhist mon… | |
| 棍杖 | staff; rod | |
| 拐杖 | crutches; crutch; walking stick | |
| 禅杖 | the staff of a Buddhist monk | |
| 笞杖 | a cudgel; CL:根[gen1] | |
| 擀面杖 | rolling pin |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 丈 — compare how they read.