滋

zī

to grow · to nourish

Radical: 氵 Strokes: 12

Structure: Left narrow, right wideFrequency: Common

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Character Decomposition

滋=氵+兹

Etymology

water

Meanings

to grow

to nourish

to increase

to cause

juice

taste

(dialect) to spout

to spurt

zī

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Words with 滋 105 total

nourishing · nutritious滋补zī bǔ to grow (usually of abstract things) · to yield · to develop滋长zī zhǎng

Idioms with 滋 10 total Chain

flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding · still growing strong · on the up方滋未艾fāng zī wèi ài drunken fighting · to get drunk and quarrel酗酒滋事xù jiǔ zī shì