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厝

cuò

Character

What 厝 means

1. to lay in place
2. to put
3. to place a coffin in a temporary location pending burial

Words starting with 厝

• 厝火积薪cuò huǒ jī xīnlit. to put a fire under a pile of firewood (idiom); fig. hidden danger; imminent danger

Words containing 厝

• 透天厝tòu tiān cuò(Taiwan) row house; townhouse; terrace house
• 积薪厝火jī xīn cuò huǒto add fuel to the flames

Characters built on 昔

These share the phonetic component 昔 (xī), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 措cuòto handle; to manage; to put in order
• 错cuòmistake; wrong; bad

Sounds the same

Read cuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 错mistake; wrong; bad
• 措to handle; to manage; to put in order
• 挫obstructed; to fail; to oppress
• 锉(literary) to fracture (a bone); (literary) to cut; to hack
• 剒to cut; to carve
• 棤rough tree bark
• 莝to chop straw fine for animals
• 蓌to squat (in salutation)