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肆

sì

HSK 6 Character

What 肆 means

1. four (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
2. unrestrained
3. wanton
4. literaryshop

Example sentences

• 别对我放肆，小姑娘!
  Bié duì wǒ fàngsì, xiǎogū niáng!
  Don't get sassy with me young lady!
• 我们突然向下望去，只见一个杯状的洼地，上面点缀着矮小的橡树和被多年风暴肆虐扭曲变形的蕨类植物。两座高耸狭窄的塔楼耸立在树梢之上。车夫用鞭子指着前方。他说：「巴斯克维尔庄园。」
  Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.

Words starting with 肆

• 肆无忌惮sì wú jì dànabsolutely unrestrained; unbridled; without the slightest scruple
• 肆意sì yìwantonly; recklessly; willfully
• 肆虐sì nüèto wreak havoc; to devastate
• 肆行sì xíngto act recklessly
• 肆意妄为sì yì wàng wéisee 恣意妄为

Words containing 肆

• 大肆dà sìwantonly; without restraint (of enemy or malefactor); unbridled
• 放肆fàng sìwanton; unbridled; presumptuous
• 恣肆zì sìunrestrained; unbridled; free and unrestrained (style)
• 酒肆jiǔ sìwine shop; liquor store; bottle shop
• 食肆shí sìrestaurant; eatery
• 大肆攻击dà sì gōng jīto vilify sb wantonly; unrestrained attack (on sb)
• 大肆鼓吹dà sì gǔ chuīto advocate vociferously

Characters that look like 肆

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

• 辞cíto resign; to dismiss; to decline
• 碑bēia monument; an upright stone tablet; stele
• 缉jīto seize; to arrest; Taiwan pr. qì
• 辟pìpenal law; variant of 辟
• 锌xīnzinc (chemistry)
• 嫦chángused in 嫦娥; used in female given names

Sounds the same

Read sì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 四four; 4
• 似to seem; to appear; to resemble
• 寺Buddhist temple; mosque; government office (old)
• 饲to raise; to rear; to feed
• 巳6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake…
• 嗣succession (to a title); to inherit; continuing (a tradition)
• 食to feed (a person or animal)
• 伺to watch; to wait; to examine
• 祀to sacrifice; to offer libation to
• 泗nasal mucus
• 厕used in 茅厕
• 姒wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old); elder sister (old)