准
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to allow; to grant; in accordance with; in the light of
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Dict coverage rank #695 U+51C6
How 准 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
冫 (semantic, “water in a spirit level”) + 隹 (phonetic, zhuī)
components: 冫 隹
How to remember it
standard · Heisig RSH #539
ice + turkey
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 隹
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 隹 (zhuī) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 隹 sound component | zhuī | short-tailed bird; sparrow |
| 维 | wéi | to preserve, to maintain, to hold together |
| 推 | tuī | to push; to expel; to drive; to decline |
| 堆 | duī | crowd, heap, pile, mass; to pile up; measure word for things in piles or stacks |
| 锥 | zhuī | gimlet, drill, awl; to drill, to bore |
| 淮 | huái | a river in Anhui province |
| 椎 | zhuī | spine, vertebra; hammer, mallet |
| 稚 | zhì | young, immature; childhood |
| 谁 | shéi | who? whom? whose? anyone? |
| 濯 | zhuó | to cleanse, to rinse, to wash out |
| 睢 | suī | to gaze at, to stare at; uninhibited |
| 帷 | wéi | curtain, screen, tent |
| 擢 | zhuó | to pull up, to raise; to select |
| 槜 | zuì | white plum |
| 骓 | zhuī | piebald horse |
| 碓 | duì | pestle |
| 萑 | huán | grass, hay, straw |
Words containing 准
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大地水准面 | dà dì shuǐ zhǔn miàn | geoid |
| 美国国家标准学会 | Měi guó Guó jiā Biāo zhǔn Xué huì | American National Standards Institute (ANSI) |
| 德国标准化学会 | Dé guó Biāo zhǔn huà Xué huì | Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN); German Institute for Standardization |
| 国家标准化管理委员会 | Guó jiā Biāo zhǔn huà Guǎn lǐ Wěi yuán huì | Standardization Administration of PRC (SAC) |
| 格林尼治标准时间 | Gé lín ní zhì Biāo zhǔn Shí jiān | Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) |
| 市场准入 | shì chǎng zhǔn rù | access to markets |
| 格林威治标准时间 | Gé lín wēi zhì Biāo zhǔn Shí jiān | (Tw) Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) |
| 国家标准中文交换码 | guó jiā biāo zhǔn Zhōng wén jiāo huàn mǎ | CNS 11643, Chinese character coding adopted in Taiwan, 1986-1992 |
| 说不准 | shuō bù zhǔn | unable to say; can't say precisely |
| 国际人权标准 | guó jì rén quán biāo zhǔn | international human rights norms |
| 看准机会 | kàn zhǔn jī huì | to watch for an opportunity; to see one's chance to |
| 会计准则理事会 | kuài jì zhǔn zé lǐ shì huì | accounting standards council |
| 国家标准码 | guó jiā biāo zhǔn mǎ | Guo Biao or GB, the standard PRC encoding, abbr. 國標碼|国标码 |
| 吃不准 | chī bù zhǔn | to be unsure about a matter; to be uncertain; to be unable to make sense of sth |
| 标准普尔 | Biāo zhǔn Pǔ ěr | S&P (formerly Standard & Poor's), financial services company |
| 不标准 | bù biāo zhǔn | nonstandard; incorrect; (of one's speech) poor; woeful (not in keeping with correct pronun… |
| 不准 | bù zhǔn | not to allow; to forbid; to prohibit |
| 一准 | yī zhǔn | variant of 一準|一准[yi1 zhun3] |
| 一准 | yī zhǔn | certainly |
| 水准 | shuǐ zhǔn | level (of achievement etc); standard; level (surveying) |