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疾首

jí shǒu

2-character word

What 疾首 means

1. extremely angry
2. infuriated
3. enraged
4. headache caused by anger

The characters in 疾首

• 疾jí(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
• 首shǒuhead; chief; first (occasion, thing etc)

Words containing 疾首

• 痛心疾首tòng xīn jí shǒubitter and hateful (idiom); to grieve and lament (over sth)

Sounds the same

Read jí shǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 棘手thorny (problem); intractable
• 吉首see 吉首市