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蜇

zhē

Character

What 蜇 means

1. to sting

Other readings

蜇 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• zhéjellyfish

Example sentences

• 蜜蜂蜇人后为什么会死去呢？
  Mìfēng zhē rén hòu wèishénme huìsǐ qù ne?
  Why do bees die after stinging?
• 蜜蜂蜇人后为什幺会死去呢？
  Why do bees die after stinging?

Words containing 蜇

• 海蜇hǎi zhéRhopilema esculenta, an edible jellyfish

Characters built on 折

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

• 哲zhéwise; a sage
• 浙Zhèshort name for Zhejiang 浙江

Characters that look like 蜇

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

• 窗chuāngwindow
• 董dǒngto supervise; to direct; director
• 裔yì(bound form) descendants; (bound form) of ... ancestry (as in 华裔; (literary) distant lands
• 蜜mìhoney
• 酱jiàngthick paste of fermented soybean; marinated in soy paste; paste
• 皙xī(literary) fair-skinned; of light complexion

Sounds the same

Read zhē, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 遮to cover up (a shortcoming); to screen off; to hide
• 折to turn sth over; to turn upside down; to tip sth out (of a container)
• 嫬old character used in female names
• 螫(of a bee or spider etc) to sting or bite; (of an irritant) to make (one's eyes or skin)…