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讳

huì

HSK 6 Character Traditional 諱

What 讳 means

1. to avoid mentioning
2. taboo word
3. name of deceased emperor or superior

Example sentences

• 公众终于对关于空气污染的意见直言不讳了。
  Public feeling against air pollution has at last become vocal.
• 终于，公众关于空气污染的意见成为直言不讳得。
  Zhōngyú, gōngzhòng guānyú kōngqìwūrǎn de yìjiàn chéngwéi zhíyánbùhuì de.
  Public feeling against air pollution has at last became vocal.

Words starting with 讳

• 讳言huì yánto avoid stating openly…
• 讳莫如深huì mò rú shēn(idiom) to steadfastly refuse to discuss the matter; to treat it as an untouchable subject
• 讳名huì míngtaboo name; name of deceased
• 讳称huì chēngeuphemism; word used to avoid a taboo reference
• 讳疾忌医huì jí jì yīhiding a sickness for fear of treatment (idiom); fig. concealing a fault to avoid…

Words containing 讳

• 忌讳jì huìtaboo; to avoid as taboo; to abstain from
• 直言不讳zhí yán bù huìto speak bluntly (idiom); not to mince words
• 避讳bì huito avoid a taboo word or topic; to refrain from; to avoid
• 不讳bù huìwithout concealing anything; to pass away; to die
• 名讳míng huìtaboo name (e.g. of emperor)
• 犯讳fàn huìto use the tabooed name 名讳; to violate a taboo; to use a taboo word or character
• 隐讳yǐn huìto hold back from saying precisely what is on one's mind
• 隐讳号yǐn huì hàocross symbol (×), used to replace a character one does not wish to display
• 供认不讳gòng rèn bù huìto make a full confession; to plead guilty
• 直言无讳zhí yán wú huìsee 直言不讳

Characters that look like 讳

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

• 诉sùto complain; to sue; to tell
• 译yìto translate; to interpret
• 曲qǔtune; song
• 伟wěibig; large; great
• 姊zǐolder sister; Taiwan pr. jiě
• 纬wěilatitude; woof (horizontal thread in weaving); weft

Sounds the same

Read huì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 会can; to have the skill; to know how to; to be likely to; to be sure to; to meet…
• 汇to remit; to converge (of rivers); to exchange
• 惠(bound form) act of kindness (from a superior); (honorific prefix) kind (as in 惠顾
• 慧intelligent
• 绘to draw; to paint; to depict; to portray
• 贿(bound form) bribery
• 蕙Coumarouna odorata
• 溃used in 溃脓; Taiwan pr. kuì
• 卉plants
• 烩to braise; to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water
• 诲to teach; to instruct; to induce
• 晦(bound form) last day of a lunar month; (bound form) dark; gloomy; (literary) night