珍
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precious thing; treasure; culinary delicacy; rare; valuable; to value highly
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 玉 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 珍
- Common rank
- #1,367
- Unicode
- U+73CD
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Formation & memory
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Words with 珍
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 如数家珍 | lit. as if enumerating one's family valuables (idiom); fig. to be very familiar with a mat… | |
| 山珍海味 | exotic delicacies; luxury foodstuff from distant locations | |
| 山珍海错 | rarities from the mountain and the sea (idiom); fig. a sumptuous spread of food delicacies | |
| 珍多冰 | cendol, Southeast Asian iced sweet dessert | |
| 无价珍珠 | Pearl of Great Price (Mormonism) | |
| 李时珍 | Li Shizhen (1518-1593), Ming botanist and pharmacologist, author of Compendium of Medical … | |
| 奇珍异宝 | rare treasure (idiom) | |
| 马氏珍珠贝 | pearl oyster (genus Pinctada) | |
| 珍重 | to treasure; to cherish; to value highly; (in parting) take good care of yourself | |
| 珍珠鸡 | guinea fowl | |
| 八珍汤 | eight-treasure decoction, tonic formula used in Chinese medicine | |
| 珍珠母 | mother-of-pearl (used in ornamentation and in TCM) | |
| 珍品 | valuable object; curio | |
| 鸡珍 | chicken gizzard (cuisine) | |
| 维珍 | Virgin (company) | |
| 珍爱 | to cherish | |
| 珍视 | to place great importance on; to treasure | |
| 赛珍珠 | Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer known for her novels on Asian cultures, Pulitze… | |
| 珍珠港 | Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) | |
| 珍异 | rare; precious and odd |
Sound family
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