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赘

zhuì

HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Traditional 贅

What 赘 means

1. bound formsuperfluous
2. bound form(of a man) to move into the household of one's in-laws after marrying; (of the bride's parents) to have the groom join one's household

Example sentences

• 我知道自己是个累赘，你没必要反复提。
  Wǒ zhīdào zìjǐ shì ge léizhuì, nǐ méi bìyào fǎnfù tí.
  I know I'm a burden; you don't have to repeat it.
• 她曾经夸口说一个月之内要减掉5公斤赘肉。
  Tā céngjīng kuākǒu shuō yī gè yuè zhīnèi yào jiǎndiào 5 gōngjīn zhuìròu.
  She once proudly stated that she was going to lose 5 kilos of fat in a single month.
• 感觉自己对别人而言就是个累赘，不会有人爱上我的。
  Gǎnjué zìjǐ duì biéren éryán jiùshì gè léizhuì, bù huì yǒurén àishàng wǒ de.
  I feel that I am a burden to everyone, that no one will ever love me.

Words starting with 赘

• 赘述zhuì shùto say more than is necessary; to give unnecessary details
• 赘肉zhuì ròuexcess flesh; unwanted fat; flab; bulge
• 赘婿zhuì xùson-in-law living at wife's parent's house
• 赘物zhuì wùsth that is superfluous
• 赘生zhuì shēngexcrescence; abnormal superfluous growth
• 赘瘤zhuì liúwart; (fig.) sth superfluous and undesirable
• 赘言zhuì yánsuperfluous words; unnecessary detail
• 赘词zhuì císuperfluous words; unnecessary detail
• 赘语zhuì yǔsuperfluous words; pleonasm
• 赘余zhuì yúsuperfluous
• 赘疣zhuì yóuwart; (fig.) superfluous thing

Words containing 赘

• 累赘léi zhuìsuperfluous; cumbersome; a burden on sb
• 入赘rù zhuìto go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family
• 冗赘rǒng zhuìverbose
• 招赘zhāo zhuìto have the groom move into the bride's house after marriage
• 骨赘gǔ zhuì(medicine) osteophyte; bone spur
• 冗赘词rǒng zhuì cíexpletive (linguistics)
• 疣赘yóu zhuìwart; superfluous; useless
• 长赘疣zhǎng zhuì yóuto vegetate
• 附赘悬疣fù zhuì xuán yóusuperfluous or useless appendages; superfluities

Characters that look like 赘

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

• 誉yùto praise; to acclaim; reputation
• 墅shùvilla
• 暨jì(literary) and; as well as; (literary) up to; as far as (as in 暨今
• 磐pánfirm; stable; rock
• 箩luóbasket
• 篑kuìbasket for carrying soil

Sounds the same

Read zhuì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 坠to fall; to drop; to weigh down
• 缀to sew; to stitch together; to combine
• 惴anxious; worried
• 缒to let down with a rope
• 甀vase with a small mouth
• 硾iodide; to weight
• 膇swelling of foot
• 餟circle shrines and make sacrifices

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• How characters are built from components.
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