Cojak Hanzi Dictionary: Hanzi Character Search: 栽

	栽
to cultivate, plant; to care for plants
Radical	木朩𣎳𣎴
Strokes (without radical)	6	Total Strokes	10
Mandarin reading	zaī zaì	Cantonese reading	zoi1
Japanese on reading	sai	Japanese kun reading	ueru
Korean reading	cay	Vietnamese reading

栽种	[ zaī zhòng ] to plant, to grow
栽种机	[ zaī zhòng jī ] a mechanical planter (for rice, plants)
栽赃	[ zaī zāng ] to frame sb (by planting sth on them)
栽跟头	[ zaī gēn tou ] to fall head over heels, (fig.) to come a cropper
⇒ 一头栽进	[ yī toú zaī jìn ] to plunge into, to run headlong into
⇒ 倒栽葱	[ daò zaī cōng ] to fall headlong, (fig.) to suffer an ignominious failure
⇒ 前人栽树，后人乘凉	[ qián rén zaī shù hoù rén chéng liáng ] to enjoy the benefits of the hard work of one's predecessors. (idiom)
⇒ 有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成阴	[ yoǔ yì zaī huā huā bù fā wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn ] lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree, fig. things do not always turn out as one would expect, well-laid plans may fail, and success may come where you least expect it
⇒ 认栽	[ rèn zaī ] to admit defeat

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