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芝麻

zhī ma

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

芝麻 (zhī ma) means "sesame (seed)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 芝麻 means

1. sesame (seed)

The characters in 芝麻

• 芝zhīZoysia pungens
• 麻máhemp (variant of 麻

Example sentences

• 芝麻开门！
  Open Sesame!
• 我吃了黑芝麻冰淇淋。
  I ate black sesame ice cream.
• 我点了一份芝麻面包，用来制作素食汉堡。
  I ordered a sesame seed buns for the veggie burgers.

Words starting with 芝麻

• 芝麻包zhī ma bāosesame bun
• 芝麻官zhī ma guānlow ranking official; petty bureaucrat
• 芝麻油zhī ma yóusesame oil
• 芝麻菜zhī ma cài(botany) arugula; rocket; roquette (subspecies Eruca vesicaria sativa)
• 芝麻饼zhī ma bǐngsesame biscuit
• 芝麻小事zhī ma xiǎo shìtrivial matter; trifle
• 芝麻绿豆zhī ma lǜ dòutrivial; minute (size)
• 芝麻酱zhī ma jiàngsesame paste

Words containing 芝麻

• 陈谷子烂芝麻chén gǔ zi làn zhī malit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom); fig. the same boring old gossip
• 捡了芝麻丢了西瓜jiǎn le zhī ma diū le xī guāto let go of the big prize while grabbing at trifles (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read zhī ma, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 脂麻variant of 芝麻

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhī ma correctly.
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