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蓄

xù

HSK 6 Character

What 蓄 means

1. to store up
2. to grow (e.g. a beard)
3. to entertain (ideas)

Example sentences

• 我想开个储蓄帐户。
  Wǒ xiǎngkāi gè chǔxùzhànghù.
  I'd like to open a savings account.
• 她把她那时的全副积蓄都给了他。
  Tā bǎ tā nàshí de quánfù jīxù dōu gěi le tā.
  She gave him all the money that she had then.
• 如果你想安享晚年，现在就要开始储蓄了。
  If you want security in your old age, begin saving now.
• 你现在不好好储蓄金钱的话，终有一天会后悔的。
  Nǐ xiànzài bù hǎohǎo chǔxù jīnqián dehuà, zhōng yǒu yī tiān huì hòuhuǐ de.
  Some day you will come to realize the importance of saving.
• 我从来不是最有可能获得这一职务的候选人。我们刚开始并没有太多资金，也没有得到许多人的支持。我们的竞选活动并非始自华盛顿的大厅里，而是始于得梅因、康科德、查尔斯顿这些地方的普通民众家中。那些辛勤工作的人们从自己微薄的储蓄中捐出5美元、10美元、20美元。
  Wǒ cóngláibù shì zuì yǒukěnéng huòdé zhè yī zhíwù de hòuxuǎnrén. wǒmen gāng kāishǐ bìng méiyǒu tài duō zījīn, yě méiyǒu dédào xǔduō rén de zhīchí. wǒmen de jìngxuǎnhuódòng bìngfēi shǐ zì Huáshèngdùn de dàtīng lǐ, érshì shǐ yú Dé Méiyīn, Kāngkēdé, Chá'ěrsīdùn zhèxiē dìfang de pǔtōngmínzhòng jiā zhōng. nàxiē xīnqín gōngzuò de rénmen cóng zìjǐ wēibó de chǔxù zhōng juān chū 5 Měiyuán,10 Měiyuán,20 Měiyuán.
  I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines, and the living rooms of Concord, and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

Words starting with 蓄

• 蓄意xù yìdeliberate; premeditated; malice
• 蓄水xù shuǐwater storage
• 蓄谋xù móuto premeditate; to plot
• 蓄势待发xù shì dài fāto wait for action after having accumulated power, energy etc
• 蓄电池xù diàn chísecondary (rechargeable) battery; accumulator; storage cell
• 蓄积xù jīto accumulate; to store up
• 蓄养xù yǎngto raise (animals)
• 蓄须xù xūto grow a beard
• 蓄水池xù shuǐ chíwater reservoir
• 蓄须明志xù xū míng zhìto grow a beard as a symbol of one's determination (as Mei Lanfang 梅兰芳

Words containing 蓄

• 储蓄chǔ xùto save money (in a bank); savings
• 积蓄jī xùto save; to put aside; savings
• 含蓄hán xùto contain; to hold; (of a person or style etc) reserved
• 兼蓄jiān xùto contain two things at a time; to mingle; to incorporate
• 储蓄卡chǔ xù kǎdebit card
• 储蓄率chǔ xù lǜsavings rate
• 个人储蓄gè rén chǔ xùpersonal savings
• 兼收并蓄jiān shōu bìng xùincorporating diverse things (idiom); eclectic; all-embracing
• 定期储蓄dìng qī chǔ xùfixed deposit (banking)
• 养精蓄锐yǎng jīng xù ruìto preserve and nurture one's spirit (idiom); honing one's strength for the big push
• 铅酸蓄电池qiān suān xù diàn chílead-acid accumulator; battery (e.g. in car)
• 蕴蓄yùn xùlatent; hidden and not developed
• 萹蓄biān xùknotgrass (Polygonum aviculare)
• 涵蓄hán xùvariant of 含蓄

Characters that look like 蓄

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

• 需xūto require; to need; to want
• 富fùrich; abundant; wealthy
• 赏shǎngto bestow (a reward); to give (to an inferior); to hand down
• 裳shangused in 衣裳
• 雳lìused in 霹雳
• 蓖bìthe castor-oil plant

Sounds the same

Read xù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 续to continue; to replenish
• 序(bound form) order; sequence; (bound form) introductory; initial; preface
• 叙to narrate; to chat
• 绪beginnings; clues; mental state
• 畜to raise (animals)
• 酗drunk
• 恤anxiety; sympathy; to sympathize
• 旭dawn; rising sun
• 絮cotton wadding; fig. padding; long-winded
• 婿son-in-law; husband
• 煦balmy; nicely warm; cozy
• 蓿clover; lucerne; Taiwan pr. sù