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嫉

jí

HSK 6 Character

What 嫉 means

1. jealousy
2. to be jealous of

Example sentences

• 我嫉妒她。
  I envy her.
• 我不嫉妒。
  I'm not jealous.
• 汤姆嫉妒吗？
  Is Tom jealous?
• 他们会嫉妒。
  They'll be jealous.
• 爱都是嫉妒的。
  There's no love without jealousy.
• 克拉娃嫉妒柳霞。
  Kèlāwá jídù Liǔxiá.
  Klava envied Lyusya.

Words starting with 嫉

• 嫉妒jí dùto be jealous of; to envy
• 嫉恨jí hènto hate out of jealousy; to resent
• 嫉恶如仇jí è rú chóu(idiom) to hate evil as one hates an enemy
• 嫉贤妒能jí xián dù néng(idiom) to envy the virtuous and talented

Words containing 嫉

• 妒嫉dù jíto be jealous of (sb's achievements etc); to be envious; envy
• 愤世嫉俗fèn shì jí súto be cynical; to be embittered
• 羡慕嫉妒恨xiàn mù jí dù hènto be green with envy (neologism c. 2009)
• 妒贤嫉能dù xián jí néngsee 嫉贤妒能

Characters that look like 嫉

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

• 嫌xiánto dislike; suspicion; resentment
• 缝féngto sew; to stitch
• 蛛zhū(bound form) spider
• 楠nánMachilus nanmu; Chinese cedar; Chinese giant redwood
• 榛zhēn(bound form) hazelnut tree (Corylus heterophylla)
• 辕yuánshaft of a cart or carriage; (bound form) entrance gate of a military camp or yamen…

Sounds the same

Read jí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 及and; to reach; up to
• 即namely; that is; i.e.
• 极extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost
• 级level; grade; rank
• 急urgent; pressing; rapid
• 籍(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral…
• 集to gather; to collect; collected works
• 辑to gather up; to collect; to edit
• 吉lucky; giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)
• 疾(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
• 笈trunks (for books)
• 藉(literary) to tread on; to insult; used in 狼藉