柿
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persimmon
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 木 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 柿
- Common rank
- #3,480
- Unicode
- U+67FF
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 柿
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 西红柿 | tomato | |
| 洋柿子 | (dialect) tomato | |
| 软柿子 | (coll.) pushover; soft touch | |
| 柿子挑软的捏 | lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom); fig. it's the weak (i… | |
| 柿子椒 | bell pepper, aka sweet pepper | |
| 柿子 | persimmon; (Northeastern dialect) tomato | |
| 柿饼 | dried persimmon |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 市 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 市 sound part | city, town; market, fair; to trade | |
| 铈 | cerium |