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杖

zhàng

HSK 6 Character

What 杖 means

1. a staff
2. a rod
3. cane
4. walking stick
5. to flog with a stick (old)

Example sentences

• 他拄拐󠄆杖。
  He walks on crutches.
• 我的祖父要用拐杖才能走路。
  Wǒ de zǔfù yào yòng guǎizhàng cáinéng zǒulù.
  My grandfather cannot walk without a stick.
• 这个老人拄着一根拐杖走路。
  Zhège lǎorén zhǔ zhe yī gēn guǎizhàng zǒu lù.
  The old man walked with a stick.
• 我不知道把拐杖放哪去了，你有看到吗？
  Wǒ bù zhīdào bǎ guǎizhàng fàng nǎ qù le, nǐ yǒu kàn dào ma?
  I don't know where my crutches are. Have you seen them?
• 一个拄着拐杖的年轻女孩问汤姆他住在哪里。
  Yī gè zhǔ zhe guǎizhàng de niánqīng nǚhái wèn Tāngmǔ tā zhù zài nǎlǐ.
  A young girl on crutches asked Tom where he lived.
• 自从我弄断了两条腿，我就拄着拐杖走路了。
  Zìcóng wǒ nòng duàn le liǎng tiáo tuǐ, wǒ jiù zhǔ zhe guǎizhàng zǒulù le.
  I'm on crutches since I broke both my legs.

Words starting with 杖

• 杖刑zhàng xíngbeating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment)
• 杖责zhàng zé(literary) to punish by beating with a rod
• 杖头木偶zhàng tóu mù ǒuzhangtou wooden rod puppetry

Words containing 杖

• 拐杖guǎi zhàngcrutches; crutch; walking stick
• 手杖shǒu zhàngcane
• 魔杖mó zhàngmagic wand
• 刑杖xíng zhàngrod used for flogging offenders
• 明杖míng zhàngwhite cane (used by the blind)
• 棍杖gùn zhàngstaff; rod
• 权杖quán zhàngscepter
• 法杖fǎ zhàngmagic staff
• 盲杖máng zhàngwhite cane (used by the blind)
• 锡杖xī zhàng(Buddhism) khakkhara; staff topped with metal rings, traditionally carried by Buddhist…
• 铁杖tiě zhàngsteel staff; steel stick
• 登山杖dēng shān zhàngtrekking pole
• 禅杖chán zhàngthe staff of a Buddhist monk
• 笞杖chī zhànga cudgel
• 擀面杖gǎn miàn zhàngrolling pin

Characters that look like 杖

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

• 板bǎnboard; plank; plate
• 歧qídivergent; side road
• 彼bǐthat; those; (one) another
• 扰rǎoto disturb
• 枚méiclassifier for small objects: coins, badges, rings, carved seals, chess pieces, eggs…
• 枝zhībranch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc

Sounds the same

Read zhàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 丈measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband
• 账account; bill; debt
• 障to block; to hinder; to obstruct
• 帐(bound form) curtain; tent; canopy; variant of 账
• 胀to swell; to distend; to expand; swollen; bloated
• 仗weaponry; to hold (a weapon); to wield
• 涨to swell; to distend
• 瘴malaria; miasma
• 嶂cliff; range of peaks
• 幛hanging scroll
• 瞕cataract in the eye
• 粀decameter (old)