赘
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(bound form) superfluous; (bound form) (of a man) to move into the household of one's in-laws after marrying; (of the bride's parents) to have the groom join one's household
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Dict coverage rank #2,422 U+8D58
How 赘 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
敖 (semantic, “leisure”) + 贝 (phonetic, bèi)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 贝
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 贝 (bèi) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 贝 sound component | bèi | sea shell; money, currency |
| 败 | bài | failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat |
| 贼 | zéi | thief, traitor; cunning, sly |
| 坝 | bà | embankment; dam |
| 呗 | bài | final particle of an assertion |
| 狈 | bèi | a legendary wolf; distressed, wretched |
| 钡 | bèi | barium |
Words containing 赘
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 赘生 | zhuì shēng | excrescence; abnormal superfluous growth |
| 赘物 | zhuì wù | sth that is superfluous |
| 赘语 | zhuì yǔ | superfluous words; pleonasm |
| 赘言 | zhuì yán | superfluous words; unnecessary detail |
| 入赘 | rù zhuì | to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family |
| 赘词 | zhuì cí | superfluous words; unnecessary detail |
| 骨赘 | gǔ zhuì | (medicine) osteophyte; bone spur |
| 赘肉 | zhuì ròu | excess flesh; unwanted fat; flab; bulge |
| 赘余 | zhuì yú | superfluous |
| 招赘 | zhāo zhuì | to have the groom move into the bride's house after marriage |
| 冗赘词 | rǒng zhuì cí | expletive (linguistics) |
| 累赘 | léi zhui | superfluous; cumbersome; burdensome; a burden; an encumbrance; to burden; to inconvenience… |
| 长赘疣 | zhǎng zhuì yóu | to vegetate |
| 赘述 | zhuì shù | to say more than is necessary; to give unnecessary details |
| 附赘悬疣 | fù zhuì xuán yóu | superfluous or useless appendages; superfluities |
| 赘瘤 | zhuì liú | wart; (fig.) sth superfluous and undesirable |
| 冗赘 | rǒng zhuì | verbose |
| 赘婿 | zhuì xù | son-in-law living at wife's parent's house |
| 疣赘 | yóu zhuì | wart; superfluous; useless |
| 赘疣 | zhuì yóu | wart; (fig.) superfluous thing |