King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

仄 — Chinese character

仄
zè
slanting, oblique; oblique tones

Pinyin
zè
Radical
9 ⼈ (Man)
Strokes
4
Components
厂 人
Formation
ideographic — A man 人 taking shelter in a lean-to 厂
Japanese
仄 as a kanji

Common words with 仄

WordPinyinMeaning
平仄píng zèlevel and oblique tones (technical term for Classical Chinese rhythmic poetry)
仄声 (仄聲)zè shēngoblique tone; nonlevel tone
逼仄bī zènarrow; cramped
仄径 (仄徑)zè jìngnarrow path

English words written with 仄

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.