澤 (zaak6 | ze2) : marsh; dampen; favour; luster

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澤

zaak6

ze2

[1] [n] marsh; swamp; pool
[2] [v] dampen; moisten; enrich
[3] [n] favour; beneficence; grace
[4] [n] luster (of metals, pearls, etc)

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Stroke count: 16

Level: 2

Radical: 水 (#85)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

澤 / 泽

This word has been viewed 9741 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 21st Apr 2014 02:28

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沼澤 ziu2 zaak6 zhao3 ze2 = swamp; glade; marsh

光澤 gwong1 zaak6 guang1 ze2 = luster

毛澤東 mou4 zaak6 dung1 mao2 ze2 dong1 = Mao Zedong

新澤西州 san1 zaak6 sai1 zau1 Xin1 ze2 xi1 zhou1 = New Jersey

毛澤東主義 mou4 zaak6 dung1 zyu2 ji6 mao2 ze2 dong1 zhu3 yi4 = Maoism

毛澤東思想 mou4 zaak6 dung1 si1 soeng2 mao2 ze2 dong1 si1 xiang3 = Mao Zedong Thought; Maoism

雞澤 gai1 zaak6 ji1 ze2 = Jize (place in Hebei)

荷澤 ho4 zaak6 he2 ze2 = Heze (city in Shandong)

洪澤 hung4 zaak6 hong2 ze2 = Hongze (place in Jiangsu)

臨澤 lam4 zaak6 lin2 ze2 = Linze (place in Gansu)
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新澤西州到處都係不毛之地粵
New Jersey is just barren wasteland.
[Lit. New Jersey everywhere also is barren wasteland. Originally the sentence was 死神界到處都是不毛之地, but I gave it a little twist!]

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Decimal representation of this word: 澤
Unicode code for this character: U+6fa4 (off-site link)

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