noun #27,998

Meanings

  1. 1 marsh; swamp; pool
  2. 2 grace; beneficence
  3. 3 (Japanese shinjitai simplified form of 澤)

Examples

Zhège hànzì zài rìwén zhōng chángjiàn, zhōngwén lǐ tōngcháng xiě zuò «zé».
This character is common in Japanese; in Chinese it is usually written as 泽.
Zé (zé) yì wéi ēnzé huò zhǎozé, chángjiàn yú dìmíng hé rénmíng.
Zé (沢) means grace or marsh, and is commonly seen in place names and personal names.

Tips

culture
is the Japanese shinjitai (simplified) form of the traditional Chinese character (zé), which in simplified Chinese is written . In Chinese contexts, appears mainly in Japanese loanwords, place names (e.g. Kanazawa), or names.
usage
In Chinese, (the simplified form of ) is the standard character. is Japanese and would not normally appear in standard Chinese text.

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