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脐

qí

Character Traditional 臍

What 脐 means

1. bound formthe navel; the umbilicus
2. bound formthe belly flap of a crab; apron

Example sentences

• 他的肚脐发炎了。
  Tā de dùqí fāyán le.
  He had an infection in his belly button.
• 无尾熊没有肚脐。
  Koala bears do not have belly buttons.
• 当我在我母亲的子宫里, 我从我母亲的肚脐看到我将要出生的房子, 我心想: 我不要到那里。"
  Dāng wǒ zài wǒ mǔqīn de zǐgōng lǐ, wǒ cóng wǒ mǔqīn de dùqí kàn dào wǒ jiāngyào chūshēng de fángzi, wǒ xīnxiǎng: wǒ bù yào dào nàli."
  When I was inside my mother's womb, I looked through my mother's navel at the house where I would be born and I thought: "No way I'm going there".

Words starting with 脐

• 脐带qí dàiumbilical cord
• 脐屎qí shǐnewborn baby's excrement (meconium); belly button discharge (infection)
• 脐橙qí chéngnavel orange
• 脐装qí zhuāngcrop top
• 脐轮qí lúnmanipūra or manipura, the solar plexus chakra 查克拉, residing in the upper abdomen
• 脐梗qí gěngumbilical cord

Words containing 脐

• 肚脐dù qínavel
• 瓜脐guā qíthe umbilicus of a melon
• 种脐zhǒng qí(botany) hilum; omphalodium
• 肚脐眼dù qí yǎnnavel; belly button
• 露脐装lòu qí zhuāngcrop top (clothing)
• 噬脐莫及shì qí mò jí(lit.) one cannot bite one's own navel (idiom); (fig.) too late for regrets
• 腽肭脐wà nà qípenis and testes of fur seal (used in TCM)

Characters built on 月

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

• 期qīa period of time; phase; stage
• 脂zhīfat; rouge (cosmetics); resin
• 肌jī(bound form) flesh; muscle
• 臂bìarm
• 脊jǐ(bound form) spine; backbone; (bound form) ridge
• 膝xīknee
• 肢zhīlimb
• 胰yípancreas

Characters that look like 脐

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

• 脆cuìbrittle; fragile; crisp
• 骄jiāoproud; arrogant
• 胰yípancreas
• 轿jiàosedan chair; palanquin; litter
• 胳gēarmpit
• 矫jiáoused in 矫情

Sounds the same

Read qí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 其his; her; its
• 奇strange; odd; weird
• 骑to sit astride; to ride (a horse, bike etc); classifier for saddle horses
• 齐neat; even; level with
• 棋chess; chess-like game; a game of chess
• 歧divergent; side road
• 旗flag; variant of 旗
• 琪(literary) fine jade
• 祺(literary) good luck; good fortune…
• 祈to implore; to pray; to request
• 崎mountainous
• 琦(literary) fine jade