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茨
cí
1. Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris)
2. to thatch (a roof)
Very Common • Top 2% ✏️ 10 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

茨
cí
thatching; caltrop, Tribulus terrestris
9 丶

Compound Words (20)

茨菰
cígu
arrowhead (Sagittaria subulata, a water plant)
林茨
Líncí
Linz (city in Austria)
本茨
Běncí
Benz (name)
茨城
Cíchéng
Ibaraki prefecture in northeast Japan
盖茨
Gàicí
Gates (name)
茨冈
cígāng
(loanword) tzigane
波茨坦
Bōcítǎn
Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany
盖茨比
Gàicíbǐ
Gatsby
格拉茨
Gélācí
Graz (city in Austria)
洛伦茨
Luòlúncí
Lorentz (name)
罗伯茨
Luóbócí
Roberts
美因茨
Měiyīncí
Mainz (city in Germany)
茨城县
Cíchéngxiàn
Ibaraki prefecture in northeast Japan
康斯坦茨
Kāngsītǎncí
Konstanz (Germany)
博茨瓦纳
Bócíwǎnà
Botswana
莱布尼茨
Láibùnící
Leibniz (name)
博茨瓦那
bócíwǎnà
Botswana
茨欣瓦利
Cíxīnwǎlì
Tskhinvali, capital of South Osetia
顿涅茨克
Dùnniècíkè
Donetsk, city in Ukraine
托洛茨基
Tuōluòcíjī
Leon Davidovich Trotsky (1879-1940), early Bolshevik leader, exiled by Stalin in 1929 and murdered in 1940

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Category
Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
1,935
Word Frequency Rank
1,791 of 84,292

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