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胄

zhòu

Character

What 胄 means

1. helmet
2. descendants

Words starting with 胄

• 胄子zhòu zǐeldest son
• 胄甲zhòu jiǎhelmet and armor
• 胄裔zhòu yìdescendants

Words containing 胄

• 世胄shì zhòuhereditary house; noble or official family
• 介胄jiè zhòuarmor
• 甲胄jiǎ zhòuarmor
• 华胄Huá zhòu(literary) Han people; descendants of nobles
• 裔胄yì zhòudescendants; offspring
• 贵胄guì zhòudescendants of feudal aristocrats
• 遐胄xiá zhòudistant descendants
• 远胄yuǎn zhòudistant descendants

Characters built on 由

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

• 油yóuoil; fat; grease
• 邮yóupost (office); mail
• 抽chōuto draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole…
• 轴zhóuaxis; axle; spool (for thread)
• 宙zhòueternity; (geology) eon
• 铀yóuuranium (chemistry); Taiwan pr. yòu
• 柚yòupomelo (Citrus maxima or C. grandis); shaddock; oriental grapefruit
• 釉yòuglaze (of porcelain)

Characters that look like 胄

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

• 育yùto have children; to raise or bring up; to educate
• 紧jǐntight; strict; close at hand
• 冒màoto emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless
• 贾gǔmerchant; to buy
• 胃wèistomach
• 宵xiāonight

Sounds the same

Read zhòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 骤sudden; unexpected; abrupt
• 宙eternity; (geology) eon
• 昼daytime
• 皱to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease
• 咒incantation; magic spell; curse
• 绉crepe; wrinkle
• 纣crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail)
• 甃brickwork of well
• 酎strong wine
• 㑇(old) beautiful; clever
• 㤘(dialect) stubborn
• 咮beak of bird; peck at