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漆

qī

HSK 6 Character Measure word 道

What 漆 means

1. paint
2. lacquer
3. to paint (furniture, walls etc)

Example sentences

• 天色漆黑。
  It is pitch dark.
• 外面一片漆黑。
  It's all dark outside.
• 注意！油漆未干
  Caution! Wet Paint
• 油漆从墙上脱落。
  The paint was coming off the wall.
• 他把门漆成了白色。
  He painted the door over white.
• 这座桥正被重新油漆。
  Zhè zuò qiáo zhèng bèi chóngxīn yóuqī.
  The bridge is being repainted.

Words starting with 漆

• 漆黑qī hēipitch-black
• 漆器qī qìlacquerware
• 漆布qī bùvarnished cloth; linoleum
• 漆弹qī dànpaintball (sports)
• 漆树qī shùlac tree (Rhus vernicifera)
• 漆雕qī diāocarved or engraved lacquerware
• 漆树科qī shù kēAnacardiaceae, plant family including lac tree (Rhus vernicifera) 漆树
• 漆皮鞋qī pí xiépatent leather shoes
• 漆黑一团qī hēi yī tuánpitch-black; (fig.) to be completely in the dark

Words containing 漆

• 油漆yóu qīoil paints; lacquer; to paint
• 喷漆pēn qīto spray paint or lacquer; lacquer
• 光漆guāng qīgloss paint; glossy varnish; gloss-finish coating
• 底漆dǐ qīprimer
• 掉漆diào qīto peel off (paint); (fig.) to be exposed; to lose face (Tw)
• 朱漆zhū qī(traditional) red paint; red lacquer
• 生漆shēng qīraw lacquer
• 金漆jīn qīcopper paint; fake gold leaf
• 雕漆diāo qīcarved lacquerware
• 乳胶漆rǔ jiāo qīlatex paint; emulsion paint
• 油光漆yóu guāng qīvarnish
• 绝热漆jué rè qīheat-resistant paint
• 一团漆黑yī tuán qī hēipitch-dark; (fig.) completely in the dark; totally ignorant of; (fig.) grim…
• 如胶似漆rú jiāo sì qīstuck together as by glue (of lovers); joined at the hip
• 乌漆墨黑wū qī mò hēijet-black; pitch-dark
• 脱胎漆器tuō tāi qī qìbodiless lacquerware
• 黑漆麻花hēi qī má huāpitch-dark; coal black
• 落漆luò qīsee 掉漆
• 乌漆抹黑wū qī mā hēisee 乌漆墨黑

Characters that look like 漆

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

• 溶róngto dissolve; soluble
• 滕Téngvassal state of Zhou in Shandong; surname Teng
• 漓lípattering (of rain); seep through
• 痿wěiatrophy
• 瘙sàoitch; old term for scabies; Taiwan pr. sāo
• 瘢bānmark; scar on the skin

Sounds the same

Read qī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 期a period of time; phase; stage
• 七seven; 7
• 妻(bound form) wife
• 戚(bound form) relatives; kin; (bound form) grief; sorrow; (old) battle-axe
• 欺to take unfair advantage of; to deceive; to cheat
• 凄intense cold; frigid; dismal
• 栖to perch; to rest (of birds); to dwell
• 缉to stitch finely
• 沏to brew (tea)
• 嘁whispering sound
• 柒seven (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
• 蹊used in 蹊跷; Taiwan pr. xī