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枝桠

zhī yā

2-character word Traditional 枝椏

What 枝桠 means

1. branch
2. twig

The characters in 枝桠

• 枝zhībranch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
• 桠yāforking branch

Sounds the same

Read zhī yā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 吱呀(onomatopoeia) creaking
• 枝丫variant of 枝桠
• 枝枒variant of 枝桠

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