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蒺

jí

Character

What 蒺 means

1. Tribulus terrestris

Words starting with 蒺

• 蒺藜jí li(botany) caltrop; puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris); barbed object

Words containing 蒺

• 铁蒺藜tiě jí li(military) caltrop

Characters that look like 蒺

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

• 蒸zhēngto evaporate; (of cooking) to steam; torch made from hemp stalks or bamboo (old)
• 墓mùgrave; tomb; mausoleum
• 惹rěto provoke; to irritate; to vex
• 霆tíngclap of thunder
• 痰tánphlegm; spittle
• 蔻kòuused in 豆蔻

Sounds the same

Read jí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 及and; to reach; up to
• 即namely; that is; i.e.
• 极extremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost
• 级level; grade; rank
• 急urgent; pressing; rapid
• 籍(bound form) book; record; register; (bound form) place of one's family or ancestral…
• 集to gather; to collect; collected works
• 辑to gather up; to collect; to edit
• 吉lucky; giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)
• 疾(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor
• 嫉jealousy; to be jealous of
• 笈trunks (for books)