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葺

qì

Character

What 葺 means

1. to repair

Words containing 葺

• 修葺xiū qìto repair; to renovate

Characters built on 咠

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

• 辑jíto gather up; to collect; to edit
• 缉jīto seize; to arrest; Taiwan pr. qì
• 揖yīto greet by raising clasped hands
• 楫jíoar (archaic)
• 戢jíto restrain oneself; to collect; to hoard

Characters that look like 葺

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

• 罩zhàoto cover; to spread over; a cover; a shade; a hood; bamboo fish trap
• 葱cōngscallion; green onion
• 粟sùmillet; (metonym) grain
• 蒿hāocelery wormwood (Artemisia carvifolia); to give off; to weed
• 覃tándeep
• 睪yìto spy out

Sounds the same

Read qì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 气gas; air; smell; weather
• 汽steam; vapor
• 弃to abandon; to relinquish; to discard
• 器device; tool; utensil
• 迄as yet; until
• 泣to sob
• 契to carve; carved words; to agree
• 砌to build by laying bricks or stones
• 妻to marry off (a daughter)
• 讫finished
• 憩to rest
• 亟repeatedly; frequently