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(zhì) - place, put, set up (bound) in Mandarin

zhì

Traditional: 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

Stroke order for 置

Examples

Our position is not bad.

Please decorate the classroom.

This device is complex.

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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This word is part of lesson 107.