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蛰

zhé

Character Traditional 蟄

What 蛰 means

1. to hibernate

Example sentences

• 我刚给蜜蜂蛰了。
  I've just been stung by a bee.
• 我被蜜蜂蛰了一下。
  Wǒ bèi mìfēng zhē le yīxià.
  I was stung by a bee.

Words starting with 蛰

• 蛰伏zhé fúhibernation; living in seclusion
• 蛰居zhé jūto live in seclusion
• 蛰眠zhé miánto hibernate
• 蛰藏zhé cángto hibernate; to hide away
• 蛰虫zhé chóngdormant insect

Words containing 蛰

• 冬蛰dōng zhéhibernation
• 启蛰Qǐ zhéWaking from Hibernation; old variant of 惊蛰
• 惊蛰Jīng zhéJingzhe or Insects Wake, 3rd of the 24 solar terms 二十四节气 6th-20th March

Characters that look like 蛰

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

• 禁jìnto prohibit; to forbid
• 蛋dànegg; oval-shaped thing
• 黄huángyellow; pornographic; to fall through
• 雪xuěsnow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
• 裔yì(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands
• 龛kān(bound form) niche; shrine

Sounds the same

Read zhé, tone for tone, but written differently.

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• 乙turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折
• 辄then; at once; always
• 摺document folded in accordion form; to fold
• 谪to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region…
• 蜇jellyfish
• 磔old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters…
• 晢bright
• 悊to revere; to respect; variant of 哲
• 乇"blade of grass" component in Chinese characters