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磁

cí

HSK 6 Character

What 磁 means

1. magnetic
2. magnetism
3. porcelain

Example sentences

• 我买磁带。
  Wǒ mǎi cídài.
  I buy tapes.
• 磁场是看不见的。
  Cíchǎng shì kànbujiàn de.
  Magnetic fields are invisible.
• 电流可以产生磁性。
  Diànliú kěyǐ chǎnshēng cíxìng.
  An electric current can generate magnetism.
• 你需要多少块儿磁砖？
  How many tiles do you need?
• 这个磁带录音机不是新的。
  Zhège cídài lùyīnjī bù shì xīn de.
  This tape recorder is not new.
• 他把他的那段话从磁带里删除了。
  Tā bǎ tā de nèi duàn huà cóng cídài lǐ shānchú le.
  He erased his speech from the tape.

Words starting with 磁

• 磁带cí dàimagnetic tape
• 磁盘cí pán(computer) disk
• 磁性cí xìngmagnetic; magnetism
• 磁场cí chǎngmagnetic field
• 磁卡cí kǎmagnetic card; IC Card (telephone)
• 磁铁cí tiěmagnet
• 磁头cí tóumagnetic head (of a tape recorder etc)
• 磁悬浮cí xuán fúmagnetic levitation (train); maglev
• 磁力cí lìmagnetic force; magnetic
• 磁化cí huàto magnetize
• 磁吸cí xī(of a magnet) to attract metallic objects; (fig.) to exert a magnetic attraction…
• 磁层cí céngmagnetosphere; magnetic layer
• 磁暴cí bàomagnetic storm
• 磁条cí tiáomagnetic stripe
• 磁极cí jímagnetic pole
• 磁片cí piànmagnetic disk
• 磁石cí shímagnet
• 磁贴cí tiēmagnetic sticker; (computing) tile (on the Windows start screen or menu)
• 磁链cí liàn(computing) magnet link; (electromagnetism) magnetic flux linkage
• 磁阻cí zǔmagnetic reluctance
• 磁体cí tǐmagnet; magnetic body
• 磁力线cí lì xiànline of magnetic flux
• 磁力锁cí lì suǒmagnetic lock
• 磁动势cí dòng shìmagnetomotive force

Words containing 磁

• 电磁diàn cíelectromagnetic
• 电磁波diàn cí bōelectromagnetic wave
• 光磁guāng címagneto-optical
• 剩磁shèng círesidual magnetism
• 地磁dì cíEarth's magnetic field; geomagnetism
• 套磁tào cí(colloquial) to cultivate good relations with sb; to try to gain favor with sb
• 永磁yǒng cí(physics) permanent magnetism; (attributive) permanent-magnet
• 消磁xiāo cíto demagnetize; to become demagnetized
• 起磁qǐ címagnetization; to magnetize
• 防磁fáng cíantimagnetic
• 顺磁shùn cíparamagnetic
• 古地磁gǔ dì cípaleomagnetism
• 地磁场dì cí chǎngthe earth's magnetic field
• 地磁暴dì cí bàogeomagnetic storm
• 永磁体yǒng cí tǐpermanent magnet
• 硬磁盘yìng cí pánhard drive; hard disk
• 软磁盘ruǎn cí pánfloppy disk
• 电磁力diàn cí lìelectromagnetic force (physics)
• 电磁场diàn cí chǎngelectromagnetic fields
• 电磁学diàn cí xuéelectromagnetism
• 电磁炉diàn cí lúinduction cooktop
• 电磁铁diàn cí tiěelectromagnet
• 可磁化体kě cí huà tǐmagnetic medium; material capable of being magnetized
• 地球磁场dì qiú cí chǎngearth's magnetic field

Characters built on 兹

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

• 滋zīto grow; to nourish; to increase
• 慈cícompassionate; gentle; merciful
• 孳zīindustrious; produce; bear
• 鹚cíused in 鸬鹚
• 糍cíused in 糍粑
• 嵫zīsee 崦嵫

Characters that look like 磁

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

• 碰pèngto touch; to meet with; to bump
• 缝féngto sew; to stitch
• 碌lùused in 劳碌; used in 庸碌; used in 骨碌
• 榴liúpomegranate
• 翩piānto fly fast
• 璇xuán(jade)

Sounds the same

Read cí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 词word; statement; speech; lyrics; a form of lyric poetry, flourishing in the Song dynasty…
• 辞to resign; to dismiss; to decline
• 慈compassionate; gentle; merciful
• 瓷chinaware; porcelain; china
• 雌female; Taiwan pr. cī
• 茨Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris); to thatch (a roof)
• 祠shrine; to offer a sacrifice
• 兹used in 龟兹
• 鹚used in 鸬鹚
• 糍used in 糍粑
• 茈used in 凫茈
• 𪉈(a kind of waterbird)