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记

jì

HSK 3 Character Traditional 記

What 记 means

1. to record
2. to note
3. to memorize
4. to remember
5. mark
6. sign
7. classifier for blows, kicks, shots

Example sentences

• 记账。
  Jìzhàng.
  Keep accounts.
• 切记！
  Qièjì!
  Be sure to remember!
• 请记住！
  Remember!
• 别忘记。
  Don't forget.
• 记住了。
  Noted.
• 你记得吗？
  Do you remember?

Words starting with 记

• 记者jì zhěreporter; journalist
• 记得jì deto remember
• 记忆jì yìto remember; to recall; memory
• 记录jì lùto record; record (written account); note-taker
• 记载jì zǎito write down; to record; written account
• 记性jì xingmemory (ability to retain information)
• 记住jì zhuto remember; to bear in mind; to learn by heart
• 记起jì qǐto recall; to recollect
• 记忆力jì yì lìfaculty of memory; ability to remember
• 记述jì shùto write an account (of events)
• 记号jì haomark; symbol; notation
• 记事jì shìto keep a record of events; record; to start to form memories (after one's infancy)
• 记忆犹新jì yì yóu xīnto remain fresh in one's memory (idiom)
• 记者会jì zhě huìpress conference
• 记叙jì xùto narrate; narrative
• 记错jì cuòto remember incorrectly
• 记事本jì shì běnnotebook; paper notepad; laptop computer
• 记分jì fēnto keep score
• 记者站jì zhě zhàncorrespondent post; correspondent station
• 记过jì guòto give sb a demerit
• 记账jì zhàngto keep accounts; to do bookkeeping; to charge to an account
• 记恨jì hènto bear grudges
• 记挂jì guà(dialect) to keep thinking about (sth); to have (sth) on one's mind
• 记念jì niànto commemorate; to honor the memory of (variant of 纪念

Words containing 记

• 忘记wàng jìto forget
• 日记rì jìdiary
• 笔记本bǐ jì běnnotebook (stationery); (computing) laptop; notebook (abbr. for 笔记本电脑
• 登记dēng jìto register (one's name)
• 书记shū jisecretary (chief official of a branch of a socialist or communist party); clerk; scribe
• 标记biāo jìsign; mark; symbol
• 传记zhuàn jìbiography
• 惦记diàn jìto think of; to keep thinking about; to be concerned about
• 笔记bǐ jìto take down (in writing); notes; a type of literature consisting mainly of short sketches
• 游记yóu jìtravel notes
• 总书记zǒng shū jigeneral secretary (of the Communist Party)
• 后记hòu jìepilogue; afterword
• 日记本rì jì běndiary (book)
• 牢记láo jìto keep in mind; to remember
• 史记Shǐ jìRecords of the Grand Historian, by 司马迁
• 西游记Xī yóu jì"Journey to the West", a Ming dynasty novel by Wu Cheng'en 吴承恩
• 速记sù jìshorthand
• 印记yìn jìimprint; trace
• 切记qiè jìremember at all costs
• 手记shǒu jìto take notes; one's notes
• 新闻记者xīn wén jì zhějournalist
• 登记表dēng jì biǎoregistration form
• 铭记míng jìto engrave in one's memory
• 札记zhá jìreading notes

Characters built on 己

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

• 已yǐalready; to stop; then
• 纪jìorder; discipline; age
• 忌jìto be jealous of; fear; dread
• 岂qǐhow? (emphatic question)
• 杞qǐChinese wolfberry shrub (Lycium chinense); willow
• 圮pǐdestroyed; injure
• 芑qǐPanicum miliaceum
• 屺qǐ(literary) a barren hill

Characters that look like 记

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

• 巡xúnto patrol; to make one's rounds; classifier for rounds of drinks
• 妃fēiimperial concubine
• 迂yūliteral-minded; pedantic; doctrinaire

Sounds the same

Read jì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 既already; since; both... (and...)
• 季season; the last month of a season; fourth or youngest amongst brothers
• 绩to spin (hemp etc); merit; accomplishment
• 际border; edge; boundary
• 计to calculate; to compute; to count
• 技skill
• 济to cross a river; to aid or relieve; to be of help
• 继to continue; to follow after; to go on with
• 纪order; discipline; age
• 寄to entrust; to place in sb's care; (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to…
• 迹(bound form) trace; mark; vestige; clue; Taiwan pr. jī
• 寂silent; solitary; Taiwan pr. jí