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梓

zǐ

Character

What 梓 means

1. Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items
2. bound formprinting blocks

Words starting with 梓

• 梓童zǐ tóng(often used in traditional novels) term used by an emperor to address the empress
• 梓潼县Zǐ tóng XiànZitong, a county in Mianyang City 绵阳市
• 梓潼Zǐ tóngsee 梓潼县

Words containing 梓

• 付梓fù zǐ(literary) to send (a manuscript) to the press
• 桑梓sāng zǐ(literary) one's native place
• 楠梓Nán zǐNanzi or Nantzu district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市
• 乡梓xiāng zǐ(literary) hometown; native place
• 吴敬梓Wú Jìng zǐWu Jingzi (1701–1754), Qing dynasty novelist, author of The Scholars 儒林外史
• 桐梓县Tóng zǐ XiànTongzi, a county in Zunyi City 遵义市
• 楠梓区Nán zǐ qūNanzi or Nantzu district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市
• 杞梓之林qǐ zǐ zhī lín(idiom) a multitude of talented people
• 桐梓Tóng zǐsee 桐梓县

Characters built on 辛

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

• 辞cíto resign; to dismiss; to decline
• 辟pìpenal law; variant of 辟
• 厗tíold stone or mineral, possibly related to antimony Sb 锑

Characters that look like 梓

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

• 移yíto move; to shift; to change
• 椅yǐchair
• 棉miángeneric term for cotton or kapok; cotton; padded or quilted with cotton
• 稀xīsparse; scattered; rare; uncommon; diluted; thin; watery
• 祥xiángauspicious; propitious
• 猝cùabruptly; suddenly; unexpectedly

Sounds the same

Read zǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 仔(bound form) (of domestic animals or fowl) young; (bound form) fine; detailed
• 紫purple; violet
• 姊older sister; Taiwan pr. jiě
• 子son; child; seed
• 籽seed (of a plant)
• 滓(bound form) dregs; sediment
• 笫bamboo mat; bed mat
• 秭billion
• 耔hoe up soil around plants
• 呰to slander; to blame; to revile
• 矷(a kind of stone)
• 胏dried meat with bone