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褶

xí

Character

What 褶 means

1. (arch.) court dress

Other readings

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

• zhěpleat; crease; Taiwan pr. zhé

Example sentences

• 苏格兰短褶裙不是裙子。
  Sūgélán duǎn zhě qún bú shì qúnzi.
  The kilt is not a skirt.
• 蕾拉穿着带褶子的短袜。
  Layla wore ruffled socks.
• 修女从黑色裙子的褶皱间掏出剪刀，熟练地将彩色纸剪成长而窄的纸条，让我们可以把这些纸条编成纸地毯。
  From between the pleats of her black skirt, the nun brought out scissors and deftly cut coloured paper into long, narrow strips, which we could then braid into a paper rug.

Words starting with 褶

• 褶皱zhě zhòufold; crease; wrinkle; (geology) fold
• 褶子zhě zipleat; fold; crease
• 褶曲zhě qūcreasing; folding
• 褶子了zhě zi leto make a mess of sth; to bungle; to mismanage
• 褶皱山系zhě zhòu shān xìfold mountain system (geology)
• 褶皱山脉zhě zhòu shān màifold mountain range (geology)

Words containing 褶

• 皱褶zhòu zhěcreased; wrinkled; fold
• 菌褶jùn zhělamella (under the cap of a mushroom)
• 百褶裙bǎi zhě qúnpleated skirt
• 包子有肉不在褶上bāo zi yǒu ròu bù zài zhě shànga book is not judged by its cover (idiom)
• 绉褶zhòu zhěvariant of 皱褶

Characters that look like 褶

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

• 撑chēngto support; to prop up; to push or move with a pole
• 樱yīngcherry
• 稽jī(bound form) to examine; to check (against records); (literary) to delay; to linger…
• 撵niǎnto expel; to oust; (dialect) to chase after
• 擢zhuóto pull out; to select; to promote

Sounds the same

Read xí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 习(bound form) to practice; to study; habit
• 席woven mat; seat; banquet
• 袭(bound form) to raid; to attack; (bound form) to continue the pattern; to perpetuate…
• 媳daughter-in-law
• 檄dispatch; order
• 觋wizard
• 槢a hard wood
• 霫Sui-Tang (premodern ethnic group)
• 隰low; marshy land
• 鎴strontium (obsolete, now 锶
• 𫘬(literary) horse with white forelegs
• 鳛loach; mudfish