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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- zhai3
- English meanings
- narrow, narrow-minded, badly off
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Top–bottom structure
Top–bottom arrangement: top 穴; bottom 乍.
Meaning & sound clues
穴 is identified as the meaning component, associated with “cave”.
乍 is identified as the sound component (zhà). Its pronunciation may differ from the modern pronunciation of 窄.
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
debt
residence; house
stockade; camp; village
to take
Example sentences
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Related words
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- 狭窄