zhǔn

accurate

standard; definitely; certainly; about to become (bride, son-in-law etc); quasi-; para-

Ice (冫) + bird radical (隹) = frozen-still accuracy

The ice radical suggests a level, still surface — the flatness of frozen water as a metaphor for precision and correctness. 隹 mainly lends the sound zhǔn and does not carry the meaning.

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IceSemantic
A short-tailed birdPhonetic

他说的话很,每次都猜对了。

tā shuō de huà hěn zhǔn, měi cì dōu cāi duì le。

What he says is very accurate; he guesses right every time.

她是我的女友,我们下个月就在一起了。

tā shì wǒ de zhǔn nǚ yǒu, wǒ men xià gè yuè jiù zài yī qǐ le。

She is my girlfriend-to-be; we will be together next month.

Words with 准

通用汉字标准交换码

tōng yòng hàn zì biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎ

abbr. to 通用碼|通用码[Tong1 yong4 ma3]

郑梦准

zhèng mèng zhǔn

Chung Mongjoon (1951-), Korean magnate and the founder of Hyundai 現代|现代[Xian4 dai4]

双重标准

shuāng chóng biāo zhǔn

double standard

一准

yī zhǔn

certainly

不准

bù zhǔn

not to allow

不准许

bù zhǔn xǔ

forbidden

不准确

bù zhǔn què

imprecise

不标准

bù biāo zhǔn

nonstandard

中文标准交换码

zhōng wén biāo zhǔn jiāo huàn mǎ

CSIC, Chinese standard interchange code used from 1992

作好准备

zuò hǎo zhǔn bèi

to prepare

作准

zuò zhǔn

to be valid; to count

保准

bǎo zhǔn

to guarantee

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