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使

shǐ

HSK 3 Character

What 使 means

1. to make
2. to cause
3. to enable
4. to use
5. to employ
6. to send
7. to instruct sb to do sth
8. envoy
9. messenger

Example sentences

• 我使用这个。
  I use this.
• 我使用火狐。
  I use Firefox.
• 汤姆脑子好使。
  Tāngmu nǎozi hǎo shǐ.
  Tom has brains.
• 你真是个天使！
  Nǐ zhēn shì ge tiānshǐ!
  You're an angel!
• 骄傲使人落后。
  Pride goes before a fall.
• 新闻使她不安。
  The news distressed her.

Words starting with 使

• 使用shǐ yòngto use; to employ; to apply
• 使命shǐ mìngmission; long-term task to which one devotes oneself; a calling
• 使得shǐ deusable; serviceable; feasible; workable; doable; to make; to cause; to bring about
• 使劲shǐ jìnto exert all one's strength
• 使馆shǐ guǎnconsulate; diplomatic mission
• 使者shǐ zhěemissary; envoy
• 使出shǐ chūto use; to exert
• 使用者shǐ yòng zhě(Taiwan) user
• 使用权shǐ yòng quánusage rights
• 使唤shǐ huanto order sb around; (colloquial) to handle (a draught animal, tool, machine etc)…
• 使徒shǐ túapostle
• 使领馆shǐ lǐng guǎnembassy and consulate
• 使节shǐ jié(diplomatic) envoy
• 使尽shǐ jìnto exert all one's strength
• 使团shǐ tuándiplomatic mission
• 使眼色shǐ yǎn sèto give sb a meaningful look
• 使坏shǐ huàito play dirty tricks; to be up to mischief
• 使用价值shǐ yòng jià zhíusable value
• 使性shǐ xìngto throw a fit; to act temperamental
• 使成shǐ chéngto cause; to render
• 使不得shǐ bu decannot be used; must not (do sth); unacceptable
• 使性子shǐ xìng zito lose one's temper
• 使人信服shǐ rén xìn fúconvincing
• 使然shǐ rán(literary) to make it so; to dictate

Words containing 使

• 即使jí shǐeven if; even though
• 大使馆dà shǐ guǎnembassy
• 促使cù shǐto prompt; to induce; to spur
• 致使zhì shǐto cause; to result in
• 假使jiǎ shǐif; in case; suppose
• 天使tiān shǐangel
• 大使dà shǐambassador; envoy
• 迫使pò shǐto force; to compel
• 行使xíng shǐto exercise (a right etc)
• 驱使qū shǐto urge; to prompt; to spur on
• 指使zhǐ shǐto incite; to prompt (sb to do sth)
• 纵使zòng shǐeven if; even though
• 特使tè shǐspecial envoy; special ambassador
• 公使gōng shǐminister; diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic…
• 好使hǎo shǐeasy to use; to function well; so that
• 鬼使神差guǐ shǐ shén chāidemons and gods at work (idiom); unexplained event crying out for a supernatural…
• 信使xìn shǐmessenger; courier
• 遣使qiǎn shǐto dispatch an envoy
• 出使chū shǐto go abroad as ambassador; to be sent on a diplomatic mission
• 节度使jié dù shǐTang and Song dynasty provincial governor, in Tang times having military and civil…
• 差使chāi shǐto send; to assign; to appoint
• 白衣天使bái yī tiān shǐ"angel in white" (laudatory term for a nurse)
• 诱使yòu shǐto lure into; to entrap; to trick into
• 支使zhī shǐto order (sb) around; to send on an errand; to send away

Characters that look like 使

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 便biànplain; informal; suitable
• 侵qīnto invade; to encroach; to infringe
• 攸yōudistant, far; adverbial prefix
• 佼jiǎohandsome
• 侥jiǎoby mere luck
• 俚lǐrustic; vulgar; unrefined

Sounds the same

Read shǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 始to begin; to start; then
• 史history; annals; title of an official historian in ancient China
• 驶(of a vehicle, horse etc) to go fast; to speed; (of a vehicle) to run; to go…
• 屎feces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
• 矢arrow; dart; straight
• 豕hog; swine
• 乨old variant of 始
• 兘old variant of 始
• 宩old variant of 屎