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炙

zhì

Character

What 炙 means

1. to broil
2. to roast

Words starting with 炙

• 炙手可热zhì shǒu kě rèlit. burn your hand, feel the heat (idiom); fig. arrogance of the powerful…
• 炙热zhì rèextremely hot (weather); blazing (sun); (fig.) burning (enthusiasm)

Words containing 炙

• 脍炙人口kuài zhì rén kǒuappealing to the masses; universally appreciated (idiom)
• 烤炙kǎo zhìto scorch; (of the sun) to beat down on
• 焦炙jiāo zhìto scorch; to burn to charcoal; sick with worry
• 亲炙qīn zhìto be enlightened by direct contact with sb
• 腩炙nǎn zhìstewed brisket

Characters that look like 炙

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

• 星xīngstar; heavenly body; satellite
• 废fèito abolish; to abandon; to abrogate
• 炎yánflame; inflammation; -itis
• 兔tùrabbit
• 灸jiǔmoxibustion (TCM)
• 荚jiápod (botany)

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