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屉

tì

HSK 5 Character Traditional 屜

What 屉 means

1. drawer; tier; tray

Example sentences

• 把抽屉清空。
  Bǎ chōuti qīngkōng.
  Empty the drawer of its contents.
• 抽屉里面有什么？
  What's in the drawer?
• 屠夫的刀子在抽屉里
  Túfū de dāozi zài chōuti lǐ
  The butcher knife is in the drawer.
• 我忘记锁上抽屉了。
  I forgot to lock the drawer.
• 我把它放在抽屉里。
  I put it in the drawer.
• 我忘记给抽屉上锁了。
  I forgot to lock the drawer.

Words starting with 屉

• 屉子tì zidrawer; stackable cooking vessel; woven mat on a bed frame or chair

Words containing 屉

• 抽屉chōu tidrawer
• 笼屉lóng tìbamboo steamer (for buns or dim sum)
• 三屉桌sān tì zhuōthree-drawer desk (traditional Chinese piece of furniture)

Characters that look like 屉

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

• 局júnarrow
• 届jièto arrive at (place or time); period; to become due
• 层céngto pile on top of one another; layer; stratum; floor (of a building); story
• 肩jiānshoulder; to shoulder (responsibilities etc)
• 屈qūbent; to feel wronged
• 屎shǐfeces; excrement; a stool; (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)

Sounds the same

Read tì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 替to substitute for; to take the place of; to replace
• 嚏sneeze
• 惕fearful; respectful
• 涕tears; nasal mucus
• 剃to shave
• 倜used in 倜傥
• 悌to do one's duty as a younger brother
• 逖(literary) remote; far away
• 籊long bamboo (for fishing rod)
• 揥get rid of; ivory hairpin
• 趯to jump; way of stroke in calligraphy
• 洟nasal mucus; Taiwan pr. yí