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栽

zāi

HSK 6 Character

What 栽 means

1. to plant; to grow
2. to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign)
3. to impose sth on sb
4. to stumble; to fall down

Example sentences

• 他们想栽培新品种的米来增加粮食生产。
  Tāmen xiǎng zāipéi xīn pǐnzhǒng de mǐ lái zēngjiā liángshi shēngchǎn.
  They want to increase food production by growing new kinds of rice.
• 农夫警告孩子们不要践踏新栽种的作物。
  The farmer warned the children not to stomp on the freshly planted crops.
• 为了增添节日的气氛 ，那里的人用盆栽装饰他们的家。
  Wèile zēngtiān jiérì de qìfēn, nàli de rén yòng pénzāi zhuāngshì tāmen de jiā.
  People there decorate their homes with potted flowers to add to the festival atmosphere.

Words starting with 栽

• 栽培zāi péito grow; to cultivate; to train
• 栽倒zāi dǎoto take a fall
• 栽赃zāi zāngto frame sb (by planting sth on them)
• 栽种zāi zhòngto plant; to grow
• 栽子zāi ziseedling; young plant
• 栽植zāi zhíto plant; to transplant
• 栽种机zāi zhòng jīa mechanical planter (for rice, plants)
• 栽筋斗zāi jīn dǒuto tumble; to fall head over heels; (fig.) to take a tumble
• 栽跟头zāi gēn touto fall head over heels; (fig.) to come a cropper

Words containing 栽

• 盆栽pén zāito grow (a plant) in a pot; potted plant (sometimes refers specifically to a bonsai plant)
• 地栽dì zāito grow in open ground (as opposed to pot cultivation 盆栽
• 移栽yí zāito transplant (horticulture, agriculture)
• 认栽rèn zāito admit defeat
• 倒栽葱dào zāi cōngto fall headlong; (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure
• 多栽花少栽刺duō zāi huā shǎo zāi cìtalk nicely and avoid disputes; give compliments and not remarks
• 一头栽进yī tóu zāi jìnto plunge into; to run headlong into
• 前人栽树，后人乘凉qián rén zāi shù , hòu rén chéng liángto enjoy the benefits of the hard work of one's predecessors. (idiom)
• 有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成阴yǒu yì zāi huā huā bù fā , wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīnlit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it…

Characters built on 土

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

• 在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at…
• 载zǎito record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. zài
• 裁cáito cut out (as a dress); to cut; to trim
• 埃āidust; dirt; angstrom
• 戴dàito put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear
• 埋máito bury
• 哉zāi(exclamatory or interrogative particle)
• 埭dàidam

Characters that look like 栽

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

• 载zǎito record in writing; to carry (i.e. publish in a newspaper etc); Taiwan pr. zài
• 敏mǐn(bound form) quick; nimble; agile; (bound form) quick-witted; smart
• 绒róngvelvet; woolen
• 敛liǎn(literary) to hold back; (literary) to restrain; to control (oneself); to collect…
• 琉liúprecious stone
• 哉zāi(exclamatory or interrogative particle)

Sounds the same

Read zāi, tone for tone, but written differently.

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