缀 (zhuì): to sew, to stitch together, to combine, to link, to connect, to put words together
缀 (zhuì) is a Chinese character meaning “to sew.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 纟 (structural) and 叕 (structural). It ranks #2747 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 缀 to bind 叕 by thread 纟; 叕 also provides the pronunciation. Its radical form 纟 (silk) appears in many related characters such as 系 (xì, to connect), 累 (lèi, tired), 绍 (shào, to continue).
Definitions
- to sew
- to stitch together
- to combine
- to link
- to connect
- to put words together
Etymology & Origin
ideographicTo bind 叕 by thread 纟; 叕 also provides the pronunciation
Decomposition: ⿰纟叕 (layout: left-right)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 点缀verb | diǎn zhuì | to decorate |
| 后缀noun | hòu zhuì | suffix (linguistics) |
| 前缀noun | qián zhuì | prefix (linguistics) |
| 词缀noun | cí zhuì | prefix or suffix of a compound word |
| 连缀动词 | lián zhuì dòng cí | linking verb |
| 中缀noun | zhōng zhuì | infix (grammar), particle attached within a word or expression |
| 缀合verb | zhuì hé | to compose |
| 收残缀轶 | shōu cán zhuì yì | to gather and patch up sth that is badly damaged (idiom) |
| 缀文verb | zhuì wén | to compose an essay |
| 缀字verb | zhuì zì | to spell |
| 联缀verb | lián zhuì | variant of 連綴|连缀 |
| 连缀verb | lián zhuì | to put together |
| 补缀verb | bǔ zhuì | to mend (clothes) |
| 尾缀noun | wěi zhuì | (lit.) to follow sb |
| 缀饰verb | zhuì shì | to decorate |
缀 appears in 17 compound words: 24 as the first character, 65 as the last, and 12 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 缀 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
了解缀字的来源,有助于理解中国文化。
le xiè chuò zì de lái yuán , yǒu zhù yú lǐ xiè zhōng guó wén huā .
Understanding the origins of character compounds helps to comprehend Chinese culture.
反正被低频盖过去也听不出来什么冷暖倾向,但的确是上盘有些点缀。
fǎn zhèng bèi dī pín gài guò qù yě tīng bù chū lái shén má lěng nuǎn qīng xiàng , dàn de què shì shàng pán yǒu xiē diǎn zhuì .
In any case, the low frequencies drown out any hints of a warm or cool tone, but there is indeed a bit of coloration in the upper range.
此处的孙悟空不再是简单的片尾彩蛋点缀,而是伏笔贯穿全片、主导剧情走向的核心配角之一。
cǐ chǔ de sūn wù kōng bù zài shì jiǎn dān de piàn wěi cǎi dàn diǎn zhuì , ér shì fú bǐ guàn chuān quán piàn , zhǔ dǎo jù qíng zǒu xiàng de hé xīn pèi jiǎo zhī yī .
Here, Sun Wukong is no longer merely a minor character who makes a brief appearance in the post-credits scene; rather, he is one of the central supporting characters whose presence serves as a recurring plot device throughout the film and drives the story forward.
巧妙的是,手动为导出笔记文件添加 .txt 后缀即可打开。
qiǎo miào de shì , shǒu dòng wéi dǎo chū bǐ jì wén jiàn tiān jiā . t x t hòu zhuì jí kě dǎ kāi .
Interestingly, you can open the exported note file simply by manually adding the .txt extension to it.
她就用画笔打捞记忆中的趣味,将童年和现在连缀在一起。
tā jiù yòng huà bǐ dǎ lāo jì yì zhōng de qù wèi , jiāng tóng nián hé xiàn zài lián zhuì zài yī qǐ .
With her paintbrush, she dredges up the joys of her memories, weaving her childhood and the present together.
如果这次请求的前缀和上次逐字节一样,服务器就不重新算,直接加载上次的计算结果。
rú guǒ zhè cì qǐng qiú de qián zhuì hé shàng cì zhú zì jié yī yàng , fú wù qì jiù bù chóng xīn suàn , zhí jiē jiā zài shàng cì de jì suàn jié guǒ .
If the prefix of this request matches the previous one byte for byte, the server will not recalculate; instead, it will directly load the result from the previous calculation.
意大利的国际号码前缀是三十九(+39)。
Yìdàlì de guójì hàomǎ qiánzhuì shì sānshí jiǔ (+39).
The country code for Italy is +39.
黏着语有许多后缀。
Niánzhuóyǔ yǒu xǔduō hòuzhuì.
Agglutinative languages have a lot of suffixes.
Character Family
Homophones — Characters pronounced zhuì
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