栽 zāi
zāi
verb
to cultivate; to plant
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Agriculture
Notes: (Unihan '栽')
Contained in
- 栽种机(栽種機) a mechanical planter (for rice, plants)
- 多栽花少栽刺 talk nicely and avoid disputes; give compliments and not remarks
- 栽植 to plant; to transplant
- 移栽 to transplant (horticulture, agriculture)
- 倒栽葱(倒栽蔥) to fall headlong; () to suffer an ignominious failure
- 一头栽进(一頭栽進) to plunge into; to run headlong into
- 栽培 to grow; to cultivate
- 盆栽 growing plants in pots
- 前人栽树，后人乘凉(前人栽樹，後人乘涼) to enjoy the benefits of the hard work of one's predecessors.
- 栽种(栽種) to plant; to grow
- 栽赃(栽贓) to frame somebody
- 栽倒 to take a fall
- 认栽(認栽) to admit defeat
- 栽跟头(栽跟頭) to fall head over heels; (fig.) to come a cropper
- 有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成阴(有意栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成陰) you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree; things do not always turn out as one would expect
- 栽筋斗 to tumble; to fall head over heels; to take a tumble
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二十三回 Chapter 23 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 4
- 卷四十七 志第二十八: 食貨二 田制 租賦 牛頭稅 Volume 47 Treatises 28: Finance and Economics 2 - Administration of Farming, Rent and Taxes, Taxes on Oxes History of Jin 金史 — count: 3
- 卷三 Scroll 3 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 第八十八回 Chapter 88 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
- 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 第二回 Chapter 38 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 卷八十八 列傳第五十八 孝友 Volume 88 Biographies 58: Filial Piety Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 63 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 《中庸章句》 Commentary on Doctrine of the Mean Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 2
- 第四十回 Chapter 40 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 2
Collocations
- 栽接 (栽接) 都知總監及栽接等使 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷一百〇五 列傳第五十五: 宇文融 韋堅 楊慎矜 王鉷 Volume 105 Biographies 55: Yu Wenrong, Wei Jian, Yang Shenjin, Wang Hong — count: 7
- 栽桑 (栽桑) 中書議勸民栽桑 — History of Song 宋史, 卷一百七十三 志第一百二十六 食貨上一 Volume 173 Treatises 126: Finance and Economics 1a — count: 7
- 栽鹿角 (栽鹿角) 深栽鹿角 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第八十八回 Chapter 88 — count: 5
- 深栽 (深栽) 深栽鹿角 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第八十八回 Chapter 88 — count: 4
- 栽花 (栽花) 栽花接本乃加爵命 — History of Jin 金史, 卷九十二 列傳第三十: 毛碩 李上達 曹望之 大懷貞 盧孝儉 盧庸 李偲 徒單克寧本名習顯 Volume 92 Biographies 30: Mao Shuo, Li Shangda, Cao Wangzhi, Da Huaizhen, Lu Xiaojian, Lu Yong, Li Cai, Tudan Kening former name Xixian — count: 4
- 栽害 (栽害) 這又是栽害我也 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第四十五回 Chapter 45 — count: 3
- 中栽 (中栽) 有人爲其庭中栽柿 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷五十一 列傳第四十五 處士 Volume 51: Retired Gentlemen — count: 3
- 竹栽 (竹栽) 內侍移竹栽入內 — History of Song 宋史, 卷三百六十 列傳第一百十九 宗澤 趙鼎 Volume 360 Biographies 119: Zong Ze, Zhao Ding — count: 3
- 民栽 (民栽) 中書議勸民栽桑 — History of Song 宋史, 卷一百七十三 志第一百二十六 食貨上一 Volume 173 Treatises 126: Finance and Economics 1a — count: 3
- 园栽 (園栽) 內園栽接使儲德源為憲州刺史 — New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史, 卷五 唐本紀第五: 莊宗下 Volume 5 Later Tang Annals 2: Zhuangzong 2 — count: 3