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豉

chǐ

Character

What 豉 means

1. salted fermented beans

Words starting with 豉

• 豉油chǐ yóusoy sauce (chiefly in Cantonese and Hakka areas)

Words containing 豉

• 蚝豉háo chǐdried oyster meat
• 豆豉dòu chǐblack bean; black bean sauce
• 豆豉酱dòu chǐ jiàngblack bean sauce

Characters built on 支

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

• 技jìskill
• 歧qídivergent; side road
• 妓jìprostitute
• 枝zhībranch; classifier for sticks, rods, pencils etc
• 肢zhīlimb
• 翅chì(bound form) wing (of a bird or insect)
• 吱zhī(onomatopoeia) creaking or groaning
• 伎jìartistry; talent; skill

Sounds the same

Read chǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 尺a Chinese foot; one-third of a meter; a ruler
• 齿(bound form) tooth; (bound form) to regard as worthy of mention
• 耻(bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace
• 侈extravagant; wasteful; exaggerating
• 呎foot (unit of length equal to 0.3048 m); old form of modern 英尺
• 褫to strip; to deprive of; to discharge
• 扡drag along
• 欼drink
• 誃to separate
• 奓old variant of 侈