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笫

zǐ

Character

What 笫 means

1. bamboo mat
2. bed mat

Words containing 笫

• 床笫chuáng zǐbed and bamboo sleeping mat; (fig.) bed as a place for intimacy
• 床笫之事chuáng zǐ zhī shìbedroom matters; sexual intercourse
• 床笫之私chuáng zǐ zhī sīintimate matters

Characters built on 竹

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

• 第dì(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六…
• 籍jí(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral…
• 笛díflute
• 篱lía fence
• 笠lìbamboo rain hat
• 笞chīto whip with bamboo strips
• 篪chíbamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes
• 笈jítrunks (for books)

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
• 梓Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and…
• 籽seed (of a plant)
• 滓(bound form) dregs; sediment
• 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