稚
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infantile; young
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 禾 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 稚
- Common rank
- #2,820
- Unicode
- U+7A1A
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
immature · Heisig RSH #2013
wild rice + turkey
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 稚
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 稚气未脱 | still possessing the innocence of childhood (idiom) | |
| 稚子 | young child | |
| 稚气 | childish nature; infantile; juvenile; puerile | |
| 稚女 | little girl (of toddler age) | |
| 稚虫 | (entomology) naiad | |
| 幼稚园 | kindergarten (Tw) | |
| 童稚 | child; childish | |
| 稚弱 | immature and feeble | |
| 甜稚 | sweet and innocent | |
| 幼稚 | young; childish; puerile | |
| 稚拙 | young and clumsy; childish and awkward | |
| 稚嫩 | young and tender; puerile; soft and immature |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 隹 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隹 sound part | short-tailed bird; sparrow | |
| 维 | to preserve, to maintain, to hold together | |
| 推 | to push; to expel; to drive; to decline | |
| 准 | standard, accurate; to permit, to approve, to allow | |
| 堆 | crowd, heap, pile, mass; to pile up; measure word for things in piles or stacks | |
| 锥 | gimlet, drill, awl; to drill, to bore | |
| 淮 | a river in Anhui province | |
| 椎 | spine, vertebra; hammer, mallet | |
| 谁 | who? whom? whose? anyone? | |
| 濯 | to cleanse, to rinse, to wash out | |
| 睢 | to gaze at, to stare at; uninhibited | |
| 帷 | curtain, screen, tent | |
| 擢 | to pull up, to raise; to select | |
| 槜 | white plum | |
| 骓 | piebald horse | |
| 碓 | pestle | |
| 萑 | grass, hay, straw |