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使役

shǐ yì

2-character word

What 使役 means

1. to use (an animal or servant)
2. working (animal)
3. (beast) of burden
4. causative form of verbs (esp. in grammar of Japanese, Korean etc)

The characters in 使役

• 使shǐto make; to cause; to enable
• 役yìforced labor; corvée; obligatory task

Sounds the same

Read shǐ yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 屎意an urge to defecate

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shǐ yì correctly.
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