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zāi
to cultivate, to plant, to tend
🔤 Pictophonetic: 木 (tree) provides meaning, 戈 provides pronunciation
HSK 6 ✏️ 10 strokes Common • Top 24%

Words Using 栽 (16)

栽培
zāipéi
HSK 6
to grow / to cultivate / to train / to educate / to patronize
zāi
to grow / to plant / to insert / to force on sb / to fall head first
盆栽
pénzāi
growing plants in pots / Japanese: bonsai
栽倒
zāidǎo
to take a fall
多栽花少栽刺
duōzāihuāshǎozāicì
talk nicely and avoid disputes / give compliments and not remarks
有意栽花花不发,无心插柳柳成阴
yǒuyìzāihuāhuābùfā,wúxīnchāliǔliǔchéngyīn
lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree / fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect / well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it
栽子
zāizi
seedling / young plant
栽植
zāizhí
to plant / to transplant
栽种
zāizhòng
to plant / to grow
栽种机
zāizhòngjī
a mechanical planter (for rice, plants)
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