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zhāi

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English Definition	to take; to borrow; to pick (flowers, fruit etc); to pluck; to select; to remove; to take off (glasses, hat etc)
Simplified Script	摘
Traditional Script	Same
Pinyin	zhāi
Effective Pinyin (After Tone Sandhi)	Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)	ㄓㄞ
Cantonese (Jyutping)	zaak⁶
Part of Speech	(动) verb
Proficiency Test Level	HSK.v3=5 TOCFL=5

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Words With Same Head Word
摘要	zhāiyào	summary; abstract
摘下	zhāixià	to take off; to remove (one's hat, a door from its hinges etc); to pick (a piece of fruit from a tree etc); (sports) to pick off (a rebound etc)
摘自	zhāizì	extracted from
摘除	zhāichú	to excise; to remove an organ
摘取	zhāiqǔ	to pluck; to take

Words With Same Tail Word
采摘	cǎizhāi	to pluck; to pick
文摘	wénzhāi	digest (of literature); to make a digest (of data); summary
指摘	zhǐzhāi	to criticize
报摘	bàozhāi	news digest
活摘	huózhāi	to harvest (an organ) from a living person

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