梢
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tip of branch
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 木 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 梢
- Common rank
- #2,992
- Unicode
- U+68A2
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 梢
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 末梢神经 | peripheral nerve | |
| 梢公 | variant of 艄公[shao1 gong1] | |
| 发梢 | hair ends | |
| 眼梢 | corner of eye near temple | |
| 白尾梢虹雉 | (bird species of China) Sclater's monal (Lophophorus sclateri) | |
| 后梢 | stern (of a boat) | |
| 尾梢 | the tip; the end; the very end | |
| 树梢 | the tip of a tree; treetop | |
| 眉梢 | tip of brow | |
| 末梢 | tip; end; last few days | |
| 钉梢 | old variant of 盯梢[ding1 shao1] | |
| 盯梢 | to follow sb; to tail; to shadow |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 肖 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 肖 sound part | to resemble, to look like; to be like | |
| 消 | news, rumors; to die out, to melt away, to vanish | |
| 销 | to fuse, to melt; to market, to sell | |
| 哨 | to whistle; to chirp | |
| 削 | to pare, to scrape, to trim | |
| 硝 | saltpeter; to tan leather | |
| 屑 | bits, crumbs, scraps; fragments; not worthwhile | |
| 宵 | night, evening, darkness | |
| 鞘 | scabbard, sheath | |
| 悄 | quiet, silent, still; anxious | |
| 筲 | basket, bucket | |
| 蛸 | octopus; long-legged spider; mantis nest | |
| 峭 | steep, precipitous, rugged | |
| 逍 | to ramble, to stroll; to jaunt, to loiter | |
| 捎 | to carry, to take; to select | |
| 艄 | the stern of a ship | |
| 魈 | mischievious mountain spirit | |
| 诮 | to scold, to blame; to ridicule, to criticize | |
| 绡 | raw silk |