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缀

zhuì

HSK 6 Character Traditional 綴

What 缀 means

1. to sew
2. to stitch together
3. to combine
4. to link
5. to connect
6. to put words together
7. to compose
8. to embellish

Other readings

缀 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• chuòvariant of {辍|chuò}

Example sentences

• 黏着语有许多后缀。
  Agglutinative languages have a lot of suffixes.
• 意大利的国际号码前缀是三十九(+39)。
  Yìdàlì de guójì hàomǎ qiánzhuì shì sānshí jiǔ (+39).
  The country code for Italy is +39.
• 众多村庄点缀着福斯湾的岸边，优美如画。初次于此航行的陌生人，必定会留下深刻印象。
  The stranger who sails for the first time up the Firth of Forth must be struck with the numerous villages that stud its picturesque shores.
• 我们突然向下望去，只见一个杯状的洼地，上面点缀着矮小的橡树和被多年风暴肆虐扭曲变形的蕨类植物。两座高耸狭窄的塔楼耸立在树梢之上。车夫用鞭子指着前方。他说：「巴斯克维尔庄园。」
  Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.

Words starting with 缀

• 缀合zhuì héto compose; to put together
• 缀字zhuì zìto spell; to compose words
• 缀文zhuì wénto compose an essay
• 缀饰zhuì shìto decorate; decoration

Words containing 缀

• 点缀diǎn zhuìto decorate; to adorn; sprinkled
• 后缀hòu zhuìsuffix (linguistics)
• 中缀zhōng zhuìinfix (grammar), particle attached within a word or expression
• 前缀qián zhuìprefix (linguistics)
• 尾缀wěi zhuì(lit.) to follow sb; (linguistics) suffix; ending
• 拼缀pīn zhuìto join together
• 缝缀féng zhuìto patch together; to mend
• 补缀bǔ zhuìto mend (clothes); to patch
• 词缀cí zhuìprefix or suffix of a compound word; affix (linguistics)
• 连缀lián zhuìto put together; linking; successive
• 连缀动词lián zhuì dòng cílinking verb
• 收残缀轶shōu cán zhuì yìto gather and patch up sth that is badly damaged (idiom)
• 联缀lián zhuìvariant of 连缀

Characters that look like 缀

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

• 继jìto continue; to follow after; to go on with
• 翅chì(bound form) wing (of a bird or insect)
• 辍chuòto stop (before completion); to cease; to suspend
• 缎duànsatin
• 堀kūcave; hole
• 掇duōto pick up; to collect; to gather up

Sounds the same

Read zhuì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 坠to fall; to drop; to weigh down
• 赘(bound form) superfluous; (bound form) (of a man) to move into the household of one's…
• 惴anxious; worried
• 缒to let down with a rope
• 甀vase with a small mouth
• 硾iodide; to weight
• 膇swelling of foot
• 餟circle shrines and make sacrifices