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栉

zhì

Character Traditional 櫛

What 栉 means

1. comb
2. to comb
3. to weed out
4. to eliminate
5. Taiwan pr. jié

Example sentences

• 美国人所吃的食物中约有三分之一来自蜜蜂授粉的农作物，包括苹果、甜瓜、蔓越莓、南瓜、栉瓜、绿花椰菜和杏仁等等。
  About one-third of the food eaten by Americans comes from crops pollinated by honey bees, including apples, melons, cranberries, pumpkins, squash, broccoli, and almonds, to name just a few.

Words starting with 栉

• 栉比zhì bǐlined up close (like teeth of a comb)
• 栉瓜zhì guā(Taiwan) zucchini; courgette; baby marrow; Taiwan pr. jié guā
• 栉水母zhì shuǐ mǔcomb jellies (Ctenophora)
• 栉孔扇贝zhì kǒng shàn bèiFarrer's scallop (Chlamys farreri), aka Chinese scallop
• 栉风沐雨zhì fēng mù yǔlit. to comb one's hair in the wind and wash it in the rain (idiom)…

Words containing 栉

• 鳞次栉比lín cì zhì bǐrow upon row
• 沐雨栉风mù yǔ zhì fēngto work unceasingly regardless of the weather (idiom)

Characters that look like 栉

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

• 挥huīto wave; to brandish; to command
• 祥xiángauspicious; propitious
• 秤chēngto weigh (variant of 称
• 绊bànto trip; to stumble; to hinder
• 桦huà(botany) birch (genus Betula)
• 抨pēngattack; impeach

Sounds the same

Read zhì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 至to arrive; most; to
• 质character; nature; quality
• 志aspiration; ambition; the will
• 制system; to control; to regulate
• 治to rule; to govern; to manage
• 置to install; to place; to put
• 致(bound form) fine; delicate; exquisite
• 智(literary) wise; wisdom
• 秩(literary) salary according to rank; (literary) an official's rank; (literary) order…
• 滞(bound form) sluggish; stagnant
• 帜flag
• 挚sincere