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羲

Xī

Character

What 羲 means

1. same as Fuxi {伏羲|Fú xī}, a mythical emperor
2. surname Xi

Words starting with 羲

• 羲皇上人xī huáng shàng rénlit. a person before the legendary emperor Fuxi 伏羲; person from ages immemorial…

Words containing 羲

• 王羲之Wáng Xī zhīWang Xizhi (303-361), famous calligrapher of Eastern Jin, known as the sage of…
• 伏羲Fú xīFuxi, legendary Chinese emperor, trad. 2852–2738 BC, mythical creator of fishing…
• 黄宗羲Huáng Zōng xīHuang Zongxi (1610-1695), scholar and writer of the Ming-Qing transition
• 伏羲氏Fú xī shìFuxi, legendary ruler in Chinese mythology credited with inventing fishing, trapping, and…

Characters that look like 羲

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

• 暴bàosudden; violent; cruel
• 薇wēiOsmunda regalis, a species of fern; Taiwan pr. wéi
• 羁jībridle; halter; to restrain
• 噩èstartling
• 襄xiāng(literary) to assist
• 蕨juéPteridium aquilinum; bracken

Sounds the same

Read Xī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 息breath; news; interest (on an investment or loan)
• 西west
• 希to hope; to admire; variant of 稀
• 吸to breathe; to suck in; to absorb
• 悉in all cases; know
• 惜to cherish; to begrudge; to pity
• 析to separate; to divide; to analyze
• 夕(bound form) sunset; dusk; (bound form) evening; night; Taiwan pr. xì
• 晰clear; distinct
• 稀sparse; scattered; rare; uncommon; diluted; thin; watery
• 牺sacrifice
• 昔former times; the past; Taiwan pr. xí