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噬

shì

Character

What 噬 means

1. to devour
2. to bite

Example sentences

• 房子被火吞噬了。
  Fángzi bèi huǒ tūnshì le.
  The house was in flames.
• 她是一个非常娇小的女孩，但她真的自己抱着中音萨克斯。不过，我忍不住想像这个东西缠绕包裹住她，并像蟒蛇般的吞噬她。
  Tā shì yī gè fēicháng jiāoxiǎo de nǚhái, dàn tā zhēn de zìjǐ bào zhe zhōng yīn sàkèsī. bùguò, wǒ rěnbuzhù xiǎngxiàng zhège dōngxi chánrào bāoguǒ zhù tā, bìng xiàng mǎngshé bān de tūnshì tā.
  She was a tiny girl, but she really held her own on the baritone sax. Nonetheless, I couldn't help but imagine the thing wrapping itself around her and devouring her like a boa constrictor.

Words starting with 噬

• 噬咬shì yǎoto bite
• 噬菌体shì jūn tǐbacteriophage; phage
• 噬脐莫及shì qí mò jí(lit.) one cannot bite one's own navel (idiom); (fig.) too late for regrets

Words containing 噬

• 吞噬tūn shìto swallow; to engulf; to gobble up
• 反噬fǎn shìto backfire on; to rebound on
• 吞噬作用tūn shì zuò yòng(biology) phagocytosis
• 吞噬细胞tūn shì xì bāophagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter)
• 巨噬细胞jù shì xì bāomacrophage
• 大吞噬细胞dà tūn shì xì bāomacrophage
• 小吞噬细胞xiǎo tūn shì xì bāomicrophage (a type of white blood cell)

Characters that look like 噬

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

• 嘴zuǐmouth; beak; nozzle
• 嘱zhǔto enjoin; to implore; to urge
• 嚏tìsneeze
• 噗pū(onomatopoeia) pop; plop; pfff
• 噻sāiused in transliteration
• 嘬chuài(literary) to gnaw; to eat ravenously

Sounds the same

Read shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 是to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true…
• 事matter; thing; item
• 视(literary, or bound form) to look at
• 室room; work unit; grave
• 世life; age; generation
• 市market; city; municipality (administrative unit)
• 试to test; to try; experiment
• 式type; form; pattern
• 示to show; to reveal
• 适to fit; suitable; proper
• 士member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor
• 释to explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 释迦牟尼