(zhì) - place, put, set up (bound) in Mandarin
zhìTraditional: 置
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Translation
place, put, set up (bound)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the net radical 罒 sits over 直 (zhí), which supplies the sound, giving the sense of laying or setting a thing in place.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 罒 (net radical) + 直 (zhí, phonetic)
Stroke order
置
Examples
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Our position is not bad.
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Please decorate the classroom.
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This device is complex.
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Please place the book on the table.
置 (zhì) means to place or set up, the second half of 位置 (wèizhì, position) and 装置 (zhuāngzhì, device).
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 置.
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