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瘠

jí

Character

What 瘠 means

1. barren
2. lean

Words starting with 瘠

• 瘠薄jí bó(of land) infertile; barren

Words containing 瘠

• 贫瘠pín jíbarren; infertile; poor
• 荒瘠huāng jídesolate and poor; infertile
• 哀毁瘠立āi huǐ jí lìsee 哀毁骨立

Characters built on 脊

These share the phonetic component 脊 (jǐ), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 嵴jíridge; crest; apex
• 鹡jíused in 鹡鸰

Characters that look like 瘠

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

• 餐cānmeal; to eat; classifier for meals
• 麽mótiny; insignificant
• 蔡Càisurname Cai
• 瘸quélame
• 瘘lòufistula; ulceration
• 窿lóngcavity; hole

Sounds the same

Read jí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 及and; to reach; up to
• 即namely; that is; i.e.
• 极extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost
• 级level; grade; rank
• 急urgent; pressing; rapid
• 籍(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral…
• 集to gather; to collect; collected works
• 辑to gather up; to collect; to edit
• 吉lucky; giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)
• 疾(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
• 嫉jealousy; to be jealous of
• 笈trunks (for books)