质
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character; nature; quality; plain; to pawn; pledge; hostage; to question; Taiwan pr. [zhi2]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 貝 +4
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 質
- Common rank
- #339
- Unicode
- U+8D28
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 质
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中国地质大学 | China University of Geosciences | |
| 地质学家 | geologist | |
| 化学性质 | chemical property | |
| 地质学 | geology | |
| 物理性质 | physical property | |
| 质子数 | proton number in nucleus; atomic number | |
| 有气质 | to have class; classy | |
| 生物质 | biomass | |
| 物质文明和精神文明 | material and spiritual culture; matter and mind; material progress, ideology and culture (… | |
| 物质文明 | material culture | |
| 相对分子质量 | (chemistry) relative molecular mass | |
| 器质性 | (of medical disorders) organic | |
| 本质上 | essentially; inherent | |
| 质子 | proton (positively charged nuclear particle); a prince sent to be held as a hostage in a n… | |
| 相对原子质量 | (chemistry) relative atomic mass | |
| 人质 | hostage | |
| 生物质能 | biomass | |
| 水质 | water quality | |
| 光面内质网 | smooth endoplasmic reticulum | |
| 质心 | (physics) center of mass |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 十 — compare how they read.