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(zhì) - system, to make, to restrict (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

zhì

Traditional: 制

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Translation

system, to make, to restrict (bound morpheme)

Word origin

An ideographic character showing a knife (刂) trimming a branching plant, the image of cutting something to shape, hence to make, to regulate and a system.

Origin
ideographic
Root
刂 (knife) + 未 (a branching plant)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 制

Examples

This system is controlled by him.

The company has a strict system.

chǎng

He makes products at the factory.

guī

This kind of rule was made by us.

chǎng

The factory has produced many machines.

制 (zhì) is a bound morpheme covering systems and the act of making; it pairs with 控 in 控制 (kòngzhì), to control.

Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 制.

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