茨
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Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris); to thatch (a roof)
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 艸 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 茨
- Common rank
- #1,720
- Unicode
- U+8328
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Formation & memory
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Words with 茨
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 圣基茨和尼维斯 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | |
| 普列谢茨克卫星发射场 | Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia | |
| 阿尔茨海默病 | Alzheimer's disease | |
| 阿尔茨海默氏病 | Alzheimer's disease | |
| 阿尔茨海默症 | Alzheimer's disease | |
| 阿尔茨海默氏症 | Alzheimer's disease | |
| 茨万吉拉伊 | Morgan Tsvangirai (1952-2018), Zimbabwean politician | |
| 伊尔库茨克 | Irkutsk | |
| 比尔·盖茨 | Bill Gates (1955-), co-founder of Microsoft | |
| 格拉茨 | Graz (city in Austria) | |
| 阿尔茨海默 | Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist | |
| 莱布尼茨 | Leibniz (name); Gottfriend Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716), German mathematician and philo… | |
| 阿茨海默症 | Alzheimer's disease | |
| 科茨沃尔德 | the Cotswolds (England) | |
| 波茨坦会议 | Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers C… | |
| 博茨瓦纳 | Botswana | |
| 托洛茨基 | Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), a leader in the Russian Revolution in 1917 | |
| 普列谢茨克 | Plesetsk, settlement in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia | |
| 波茨坦公告 | Potsdam Declaration | |
| 罗伯茨 | Roberts |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 次 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 次 sound part | order, sequence; second, next; one after the other | |
| 资 | wealth, property, capital | |
| 姿 | grace, good looks; bearing, poise, posture | |
| 瓷 | china, crockery, porcelain | |
| 咨 | to inquire, to consult, to discuss; to plan | |
| 恣 | indulgent; unrestrained | |
| 絘 | a tax on rolls of cloth | |
| 佽 | to help, to aid | |
| 粢 | common millet; grain offered as a sacrifice |