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晷

guǐ

Character

What 晷 means

1. sundial

Words containing 晷

• 日晷rì guǐsundial
• 日无暇晷rì wú xiá guǐno time to spare (idiom)
• 焚膏继晷fén gāo jì guǐto burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day
• 寸晷cùn guǐsee 寸阴

Characters that look like 晷

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

• 幕mùcurtain or screen; canopy or tent; headquarters of a general
• 募mùto canvass for contributions; to collect; to raise; to recruit; to enlist
• 葵kuíused in the names of various herbaceous plants
• 眷juàn(bound form) one's family, esp. wife and children; (literary) to regard with love and…
• 蓦mòleap on or over; suddenly
• 豢huànto rear; to raise (animals)

Sounds the same

Read guǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鬼disembodied spirit; ghost; devil; (suffix) person with a certain vice or addiction etc…
• 轨(bound form) rail; track; course; path
• 癸tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; tenth in order…
• 诡(bound form) sly; crafty; (literary) weird; bizarre; (literary) contradictory…
• 簋ancient bronze food vessel with a round mouth and two or four handles…
• 氿mountain spring
• 宄traitor
• 庋(literary) shelf; (literary) to store; to keep; to preserve
• 姽quiet and nice
• 佹(literary) perverse; unreasonable; (literary) eccentric; enigmatic; (literary) by chance…
• 垝(literary) dilapidated; collapsed; damaged
• 匦small box