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笞

chī

Character

What 笞 means

1. to whip with bamboo strips

Words starting with 笞

• 笞刑chī xíngwhipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment)
• 笞掠chī lüèto flog
• 笞击chī jīto cudgel
• 笞杖chī zhànga cudgel
• 笞骂chī màto whip and revile
• 笞背chī bèito flog or whip the back
• 笞臀chī túnto whip the buttocks
• 笞责chī zéto flog with a bamboo stick
• 笞辱chī rǔto whip and insult
• 笞挞chī tàto flog; to whip
• 笞棰chī chuíto beat with a bamboo whip

Words containing 笞

• 榜笞péng chī(literary) to beat; to flog; to whip
• 鞭笞biān chīto flog; to lash; to whip

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
• 篪chíbamboo flute with 7 or 8 holes
• 笈jítrunks (for books)
• 箕jīwinnow basket

Characters that look like 笞

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

• 留liúto leave (a message etc); to retain; to stay
• 窗chuāngwindow
• 葛gékudzu (Pueraria lobata); hemp cloth
• 笛díflute
• 窖jiàocellar; to store in a cellar
• 菖chāngsee 菖蒲

Sounds the same

Read chī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 吃to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 痴imbecile; sentimental; stupid
• 嗤laugh at; jeer; scoff at
• 哧(onomatopoeia) giggling; breathing; tearing of paper, ripping of fabric etc
• 螭dragon with horns not yet grown (in myth or heraldry); variant of 魑
• 离mythical beast (archaic)
• 黐birdlime
• 蚩ignorant; worm
• 魑used in 魑魅
• 鸱scops owl
• 媸ugly woman
• 樆manjack or cordia (genus Cordia)