泽
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pool; pond; (of metals etc) luster; favor or beneficence; damp; moist
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 水 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 澤
- Common rank
- #1,038
- Unicode
- U+6CFD
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Formation & memory
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How 泽 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
water
Components 氵
? unknown part
How to remember it
swamp · Heisig RSH #2600
水 water + scarecrow
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 泽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 毛泽东主义 | Maoism | |
| 科泽科德 | old Chinese name for Calicut, town on Arabian sea in Kerala, India; now called 卡利卡特 | |
| 安泽县 | Anze, a county in Linfen City 臨汾市|临汾市[Lin2 fen2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 会泽县 | Huize, a county in Qujing City 曲靖市[Qu3 jing4 Shi4], Yunnan | |
| 光泽县 | Guangze, a county in Nanping City 南平市[Nan2 ping2 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 新泽西 | New Jersey, US state | |
| 泽州县 | Zezhou, a county in Jincheng City 晉城市|晋城市[Jin4 cheng2 Shi4], Shanxi | |
| 大泽乡起义 | Dazexiang Uprising, another name for 陳勝吳廣起義|陈胜吴广起义[Chen2 Sheng4 Wu2 Guang3 Qi3 yi4] | |
| 黑泽明 | Kurosawa Akira (1910-1998) Japanese movie director | |
| 江泽民 | Jiang Zemin (1926–2022), politician, president of PRC 1993–2003 | |
| 鸡泽县 | Jize, a county in Handan City 邯鄲市|邯郸市[Han2 dan1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 古斯塔夫·施特雷泽曼 | Gustav Stresemann (Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic) | |
| 泽普县 | Poskam, a county in Kashgar City 喀什市[Ka1 shi2 Shi4], Xinjiang | |
| 泽西岛 | Jersey Island (largest of the Channel Islands) | |
| 毛泽东选集 | Selected Works of Mao Zedong | |
| 毛泽东 | Mao Zedong (1893–1976), leader of the Chinese Communist Party 1935–1976 | |
| 毛泽东思想 | Mao Zedong Thought | |
| 临泽县 | Linze, a county in Zhangye City 張掖市|张掖市[Zhang1 ye4 Shi4], Gansu | |
| 深泽县 | Shenze, a county in Shijiazhuang City 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 任泽区 | Renze, a district of Xingtai City 邢臺市|邢台市[Xing2 tai2 Shi4], Hebei |