zhí

to grow

to reproduce

remains (歹) + sound zhí (直) = to grow and reproduce

歹 depicts bones or remains, evoking the cycle of life from death — flesh and bone giving rise to new growth. 直 mainly lends the sound zhí; the meaning of reproduction rests with 歹.

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春天来了,很多动物开始繁后代。

chūn tiān lái le, hěn duō dòng wù kāi shǐ fán zhí hòu dài。

Spring has come, and many animals begin to reproduce offspring.

这种鱼在温暖的水里繁得很快。

zhè zhǒng yú zài wēn nuǎn de shuǐ lǐ fán zhí de hěn kuài。

This kind of fish reproduces very quickly in warm water.

Words with 殖

裂殖

liè zhí

schizo-

养殖

yǎng zhí

to raise; to breed (animals etc)

养殖业

yǎng zhí yè

cultivation industry

驯养繁殖

xùn yǎng fán zhí

domestication and breeding

驯养繁殖场

xùn yǎng fán zhí chǎng

captive breeding facility; breeding farm

价值增殖

jià zhí zēng zhí

valorization (in Marxist theory)

半封建半殖民地

bàn fēng jiàn bàn zhí mín dì

semifeudal and semicolonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)

半殖民地

bàn zhí mín dì

semicolonial

同配生殖

tóng pèi shēng zhí

isogamy

器官移殖

qì guān yí zhí

organ transplant

增殖

zēng zhí

growth

增殖反应堆

zēng zhí fǎn yìng duī

breeder reactor

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