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崽

zǎi

Character

What 崽 means

1. child
2. young animal

Words starting with 崽

• 崽子zǎi zioffspring of an animal; brat; bastard
• 崽卖爷田不心疼zǎi mài yé tián bù xīn ténglit. the child sells the father's farm without regret (idiom)…

Words containing 崽

• 狗崽子gǒu zǎi zi(colloquial) puppy; (derog.) son of a bitch
• 下崽xià zǎi(of animals) to give birth; to foal, to whelp etc
• 幼崽yòu zǎi(zoology) the young; immature offspring
• 烂崽làn zǎi(dialect) hooligan; low-life
• 狼崽láng zǎiwolf cub
• 兔崽子tù zǎi zibrat; bastard
• 伢崽yá zǎi(dialect) child

Characters built on 思

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

• 腮sāicheek
• 鳃sāigills of fish

Characters that look like 崽

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 塞sè(bound form) to block; to obstruct
• 惠huì(bound form) act of kindness (from a superior); (honorific prefix) kind (as in 惠顾
• 蒸zhēngto evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old)
• 奠diànto fix; to settle; a libation to the dead
• 寞mòlonesome
• 嵩sōng(literary) (of mountains) lofty

Sounds the same

Read zǎi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 载to record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. zài
• 宰to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (colloquial) to fleece; to rip off…
• 仔variant of 崽; (dialect; bound form) young man