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蔗

zhè

Character

What 蔗 means

1. sugar cane

Example sentences

• 甘蔗是甜的。
  Sugar cane is sweet.

Words starting with 蔗

• 蔗渣zhè zhābagasse (sugar cane waste)
• 蔗糖zhè tángcane sugar; sucrose
• 蔗农zhè nóngsugar cane farmer
• 蔗糖素zhè táng sùsucralose

Words containing 蔗

• 甘蔗gān zhesugar cane
• 甘蔗渣gān zhe zhābagasse
• 三氯蔗糖sān lǜ zhè tángsucralose

Characters built on 庶

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

• 遮zhēto cover up (a shortcoming); to screen off; to hide
• 鹧zhèpartridge; Francolinus chinensis

Characters that look like 蔗

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

• 震zhènto shake; to vibrate; to jolt
• 蒸zhēngto evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old)
• 裹guǒto wrap around; bundle; parcel; package; to press into service; to pressgang…
• 蔑mièto belittle; nothing
• 罂yīngearthen jar with small mouth
• 蕙huìCoumarouna odorata

Sounds the same

Read zhè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 这(pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this…
• 浙short name for Zhejiang 浙江
• 柘a thorny tree; sugarcane; Cudrania triloba
• 鹧partridge; Francolinus chinensis
• 䗪Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis)
• 嗻(old) aye aye!
• 蟅locust; Chinese ground beetle (Eupolyphaga sinensis)