竖 (豎)
shù
Pinyin

Definition

竖 (豎)
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shù
  1. to erect
  2. vertical
  3. vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (8)

竖
shù
  1. 1 to erect
  2. 2 vertical
  3. 3 vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)
横竖
héng shu
  1. 1 anyway
竖琴
shù qín
  1. 1 harp
竖立
shù lì
  1. 1 to erect
  2. 2 to set upright
  3. 3 to stand
竖起
shù qǐ
  1. 1 to erect (a tent etc)
  2. 2 to prick up (one's ears)
  3. 3 to raise (one's eyebrows)
  4. 4 to stick up (one's thumb)
  5. 5 to turn up (one's collar)
  6. 6 (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)

Idioms (2)

横七竖八
héng qī shù bā
  1. 1 in disorder
  2. 2 at sixes and sevens (idiom)
横挑鼻子竖挑眼
héng tiāo bí zi shù tiāo yǎn
  1. 1 to pick on sth incessantly (idiom)
  2. 2 to criticize right and left

Sample Sentences

小学时候我们班就有三类人：“仙人”就是那种看各种高端怪书的奇葩（比如卡尔维诺的《宇宙奇趣全集》）；“完人”这种人会跳舞会唱歌会主持节目会各种乐器，还奥数好英语好钢琴八级；还有一种人没啥当，只好当“井货”（横竖都是二）。
xiǎoxué shíhou wǒmen bān jiù yǒu sān lèi rén ：“xiānrén ”jiùshì nàzhǒng kàn gèzhǒng gāoduān guài shū de qípā （bǐrú kǎ ěr wéi nuò de 《yǔzhòu qíqù quánjí 》）；“wánrén ”zhèzhǒng rén huì tiàowǔ huì chànggē huì zhǔchí jiémù huì gèzhǒng yuèqì ，hái ÀoShù hǎo Yīngyǔ hǎo gāngqín bā jí ；háiyǒu yīzhǒng rén méi shá dāng ，zhǐhǎo dāng “jǐng huò ”（héngshu dōu shì èr ）。
There were three kinds of people in my elementary school: the Merlin - nerds who read all kinds of wired high-end books (like Calvino’s Trolltech Universe Collection); the Paragon - the kids who could sing, dance, host games, play instruments, were good at all subjects, and could play piano like a professional; what was left were those kids who couldn’t be either, so they could only be “lol"s (It is lol either way).
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免贵姓王，三横一竖王。
miǎnguìxìng Wáng ，sān héng yī shù Wáng 。
My surname is Wang, the "Wang" character with three horizontal strokes and one vertical stroke.
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他气得头发都竖起来了。
tā qì de tóufa dōu shù qǐlai le 。
He was so angry that his hair stood up.
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怎么没有？上次我宝宝一直半夜惊醒，大哭。我妈非说是因为清明节了，宝宝看到了不干净的东西。在家里弄了一碗水，把三根筷子放进去，开始叫那些过世亲人的名字。一直叫到筷子能竖起来为止。
zěnme méiyǒu ？shàngcì wǒ bǎobao yīzhí bànyè jīngxǐng ，dà kū 。wǒ mā fēishuō shì yīnwèi Qīngmíngjié le ，bǎobao kàndào le bù gānjìng de dōngxi 。zài jiālǐ nòng le yī wǎn shuǐ ，bǎ sān gēn kuàizi fàng jìnqù ，kāishǐ jiào nàxiē guòshì qīnrén de míngzi 。yīzhí jiào dào kuàizi néng shùqǐlái wéizhǐ 。
How can there not be? Last time my baby kept crying in the middle of the night, my mom insisted that it was because of Tomb Sweeping Day, and that the baby had seen something that wasn't right. She put a bowl of water in our house and put three chopsticks into it, then began to call out the names of relatives who had passed away. She kept calling their names to the chopsticks to get them to rise.
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哎呀，看了这些刑具我汗毛都竖起来了，太残忍，太血腥了。
āiyā ，kàn le zhèxiē xíngjù wǒ hànmáo dōu shù qǐlái le ，tài cánrěn ，tài xuèxīng le 。
Whoa! Looking at these instruments of torture makes my hair stand on end. They're so cruel and bloody!
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可是，她还是不放心，又从东海捉来一只万年的巨龟，斩下它的四足，把它们用作擎天柱，分别竖在大地的四角，支撑住了天地的四方。
kěshì ，tā háishì bù fàngxīn ，yòu cóng Dōnghǎi zhuō lái yī zhī wànnián de jùguī ，zhǎn xià tā de sìzú ，bǎ tāmen yòngzuò qíngtiānzhù ，fēnbié shù zài dàdì de sì jiǎo ，zhīchēng zhù le tiāndì de sì fāng 。
But she still wasn't at ease. She then took a 10,000 year-old tortoise from the East China Sea and chopped off its four legs and used them as pillars for the sky. She placed them at the four corners of the world so as to stabilize all of Heaven.
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可以。竖的吗？
kěyǐ 。shù de ma ？
Sure. Vertical?
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不是。横吹的是笛子，竖吹的是箫。你再看那边，他们在打鼓！
bùshì 。héng chuī de shì dízi ，shù chuī de shì xiāo 。nǐ zài kàn nàbiān ，tāmen zài dǎgǔ ！
No. The one played horizontally is called a 'dizi' and the one played vertically is called a 'xiao'. Now look over there. They're playing the drums!
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不是，我带她来矫正牙齿的。你看她的牙，横七竖八的，难看死了。
bùshì ，wǒ dài tā lái jiǎozhèng yáchǐ de 。nǐ kàn tā de yá ，héngqīshùbā de ，nánkàn sǐ le 。
No, I brought her here to have her teeth straightened. Look at her teeth, they're going in all directions. They look terrible.
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我说的吧！现在，把背板竖起来，装到底板上。
wǒ shuō de ba ！xiànzài ，bǎ bèibǎn shù qǐlái ，zhuāng dào dǐbǎn shàng 。
Didn't I say so? Now, stand the back panel up, and put it into the bottom panel.
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