糟
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dregs; draff; pickled in wine; rotten; messy; ruined
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 米 +11
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 糟
- Common rank
- #2,175
- Unicode
- U+7CDF
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Formation & memory
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Words with 糟
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一团乱糟 | a chaotic mess | |
| 糟溜黄鱼片 | stir-fried yellow fish filet | |
| 一团糟 | chaos; bungle; complete mess; shambles | |
| 乌七八糟 | everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess; obscene; dirty; filthy | |
| 乱七八糟 | (idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled | |
| 糟溜黄鱼 | stir-fried yellow fish filet | |
| 取其精华，去其糟粕 | take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan); keep what is good, d… | |
| 酒糟鼻 | rosacea (dermatological condition of the face and nose); brandy nose | |
| 糟心 | vexed; annoyed; upset | |
| 污七八糟 | variant of 烏七八糟|乌七八糟[wu1 qi1 ba1 zao1] | |
| 酒糟 | distiller's grain; wine lees | |
| 糟了 | gosh!; oh no!; darn! | |
| 弄糟 | to spoil; to mess up | |
| 糟透 | in a bad state; horrible; dreadful; entirely regrettable | |
| 乱糟糟 | chaotic; topsy turvy; a complete mess | |
| 污糟 | filthy; unhygienic; squalid; gross | |
| 糟踏 | variant of 糟蹋[zao1 ta4] | |
| 去其糟粕 | to remove the dross; to discard the dregs | |
| 糟糕 | too bad; how terrible; what bad luck; terrible; bad | |
| 糟糠妻 | wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 曹 — compare how they read.