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Word and Radical Components of 杂志

The Chinese word 杂志 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
杂志 1. Simplified form of 雜誌

杂志 ⇨ 杂 + 志
Component Pinyin Meanings
杂 1. Simplified form of 雜
2. Simplified form of 朵
志 zhì 1. will; determination; aspiration; ambition
2. Alternative form of 誌// (annals; records)
3. Variant of 誌

杂 ⇨ 九 + 木
Component Pinyin Meanings
九 jiǔ 1. nine
2. (figurative) many
3. (weather) each of the nine nine-day periods from the winter solstice
4. (Cantonese, minced oath, euphemism) Synonym of 㞗 (gau1, t=penis)
5. Variant of 鳩
木 mù 1. tree; woody plant
     Synonyms: 樹
     樹木 - tree
     灌木 - shrub
     木芍藥 - tree peony
2. wood; timber
     木頭tou - log
3. wooden
     這 張 桌子 是 木 的。 - This table is made of wood
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
     木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
     棺木 - coffin
     就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
     有木有 - innit, damn right
6. numb
     麻木 - numb, insensitive
     她 手指 凍 木 了。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.

志 ⇨ 士 + 心
Component Pinyin Meanings
士 shì 1. (obsolete) unmarried male; bachelor
2. (obsolete) (honorific) man
3. (obsolete) general; high-ranking military officer
4. (obsolete) soldier; noncommissioned officer
     士兵 - soldier
5. (historical) scholar-official (civil servant appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day governance)
6. (historical) (self-appellation used by scholar-officials in ancient China, when addressing the emperor:) I; subject
7. (historical) a social stratum in ancient China
8. scholar; academic; intellectual; intelligentsia
     博士 - doctor; doctoral degree
     院士 - academician
9. (honorific, obsolete) (suffix for a virtuous, knowledgeable or skilled person:) commendable person
     女士 - Lady
     護士 - nurse
     人士 - public figure
     助產士 - midwife
10. (Chinese chess) adviser; guard; minister (usually only on the black side, in some sets on both red and black sides)
11. (obsolete) Alternative form of 仕 (to be an official)
12. =====Usage notes=====
13. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note low la (6̣).
     Synonyms: 四
14. Simplified form of 土
心 xīn 1. heart
2. mind
3. thought; idea
4. intention
5. center; core
6. (Chinese astronomy) Heart mansion (one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions)
     Synonyms: 商, 辰

九 ⇨ 丿 + 乙
Component Pinyin Meanings
丿 piě 1. slash
yì 2. left-falling stroke, usually read as 撇
3. to arrive
乙 yǐ 1. The second of the ten heavenly stems (天干)
2. second; 2; B; II; beta (used for unnamed people or objects, to enumerate headings in a list, for grades, etc.)
     路人 甲 和 路人 乙 (lùrén jiǎ hé lùrén yǐ) - passerby A and passerby B
     他 法語 成績 得 了 乙。 (Tā fǎyǔ chéngjì dé le yǐ.) - He got a B in French.
     乙肝 (yǐgān) - hepatitis B
3. (chemistry) eth-; ethyl
     乙烷 (yǐwán) - ethane
4. (literary, formal) one
     （公文）……加 乙 份。 ((gōngwén)...... Jiā yǐ fèn.) - (In official letters) …added one copy.
yǐ 5. (ACG, sometimes sarcastic) thank you for the hard work in (doing something)
     自-演 乙 (zìyǎn yǐ) - (q-lite, sarcastically) thank you for your hard work in staging this "drama".
yǐ 6. (music) Kunqu gongche notation for the note ti (7).
     Synonyms: ?
7. (music) Cantonese opera gongche notation for the note low ti (7̣).
     Synonyms: 一
8. (Cantonese) Only used in 山雞乙 (a place in Hong Kong)