栽
to cultivate, to plant, to tend; to plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign); to impose sth on sb; to stumble; to fall down
- Strokes
- 10
- Pinyin
- zāi
Parts
Words with 栽
- 地栽dì zāi · dizaito grow in open ground (as opposed to pot cultivation 盆栽[pen2 zai1])
- 栽倒zāi dǎo · zaidaoto take a fall
- 栽培zāi péi · zaipeito grow; to cultivate; to train
- 栽子zāi zi · zaiziyoung plant
- 栽植zāi zhí · zaizhito plant; to transplant
- 栽种zāi zhòng · zaizhongto plant; to grow
- 栽赃zāi zāng · zaizangto frame sb (by planting sth on them)
- 盆栽pén zāi · penzaito grow (a plant) in a pot; potted plant (sometimes refers specifically to a bonsai plant)
- 移栽yí zāi · yizaito transplant (horticulture, agriculture)
- 认栽rèn zāi · renzaito admit defeat
- 倒栽葱dào zāi cōng · daozaicongto fall headlong; (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure
- 栽种机zāi zhòng jī · zaizhongjia mechanical planter (for rice, plants)
- 栽筋斗zāi jīn dǒu · zaijindouto tumble; to fall head over heels; (fig.) to take a tumble
- 栽跟头zāi gēn tou · zaigentouto fall head over heels; (fig.) to come a cropper
- 一头栽进yī tóu zāi jìn · yitouzaijinto plunge into; to run headlong into
- 多栽花少栽刺duō zāi huā shǎo zāi cì · duozaihuashaozaicitalk nicely and avoid disputes; give compliments and not remarks
- 前人栽树,后人乘凉qián rén zāi shù , hòu rén chéng liáng · qianrenzaishu,hourenchengliangto enjoy the benefits of the hard work of one's predecessors. (idiom)
- 有意栽花花不发,无心插柳柳成阴yǒu yì zāi huā huā bù fā , wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn · youyizaihuahuabufa,wuxinchaliuliuchengyinlit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree; fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect; well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it