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式

shì

HSK 4 Character

What 式 means

1. type
2. form
3. pattern
4. style

Example sentences

• 换种方式说。
  Say it in another way.
• 仪式完成了。
  The ritual was completed.
• 有其他样式吗？
  Yǒu qítā yàngshì ma?
  Do you have other types?
• 他穿中式服装。
  He wears Chinese-style clothes.
• 程式正常运行。
  It's working just fine.
• 更新应用程式。
  Update the app.

Words starting with 式

• 式样shì yàngstyle
• 式微shì wēi(literary) to decline; to wane; title of a section in the Book of Songs 诗经
• 式子shì ziposture; (math) expression; formula

Words containing 式

• 方式fāng shìway; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc)
• 正式zhèng shìformal; official
• 形式xíng shìouter appearance; form; shape
• 样式yàng shìtype; style
• 开幕式kāi mù shìopening ceremony
• 模式mó shìmode; pattern; model
• 仪式yí shìceremony
• 格式gé shìform; specification; format
• 公式gōng shìformula
• 款式kuǎn shìpattern; style; design
• 生活方式shēng huó fāng shìway of life; lifestyle
• 各式各样gè shì gè yàng(of) all kinds and sorts; various
• 老式lǎo shìold-fashioned; old type; outdated
• 中国式Zhōng guó shìChinese style; à la chinoise
• 美式Měi shìAmerican-style
• 新式xīn shìnew style; latest type
• 西式xī shìWestern style
• 句式jù shìsentence pattern; sentence structure; syntax
• 程式chéng shìform; pattern; formula
• 非正式fēi zhèng shìunofficial; informal
• 欧式Ōu shìin the European style; Euclidean
• 旧式jiù shìold style
• 法式fǎ shìrule; method; model
• 方程式fāng chéng shì(math) equation

Characters that look like 式

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

• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete
• 戒jièto guard against; to exhort; to admonish or warn
• 忒tèto err; to change
• 戎rónggeneric term for weapons (old); army (matters); military affairs
• 朮shùvariant of 术
• 戌quused in 屈戌儿

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
• 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
• 柿persimmon