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笈

jí

Character

What 笈 means

1. trunks (for books)

Words containing 笈

• 秘笈mì jísecret book or collection of books
• 负笈fù jí(literary) to leave home to pursue studies in (a distant place)

Characters built on 竹

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

• 第dì(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六…
• 籍jí(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral…
• 笛díflute
• 篱lía fence
• 笠lìbamboo rain hat
• 笞chīto whip with bamboo strips
• 篪chíbamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes
• 箕jīwinnow basket

Characters that look like 笈

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

• 复fùto go and return; to return; to resume
• 夏xiàsummer
• 荒huāngdesolate; shortage; scarce
• 茗míngThea sinensis; young leaves of tea
• 苴jū(hemp); sack cloth
• 罡gāngstars of the Big Dipper that constitute the tail of the dipper

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
• 藉(literary) to tread on; to insult; used in 狼藉