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踝

huái

Character

What 踝 means

1. ankle

Example sentences

• 出示你的脚踝吧。
  Chūshì nǐ de jiǎohuái ba.
  Show me your ankles.
• 脚踝脚踝你在哪里？
  Jiǎohuái jiǎohuái nǐ zài nǎlǐ?
  Ankle, ankle, where are you?
• 她锻炼时扭伤了脚踝。
  Tā duànliàn shí niǔ shāng le jiǎohuái.
  She twisted her ankle while she was doing exercise.
• 他把足踝扭伤了，整整一个月不能走路。
  Tā bǎ zúhuái niǔshāng le, zhěngzhěng yī gè yuè bù néng zǒulù.
  A sprained ankle disabled him from walking for a month.
• 桌子旁边的木椅上，坐着葛莱姆斯比罗伊洛特医生。他身穿一件灰色长睡袍，脚踝裸露在袍摆之下，脚上穿着红色无跟土耳其便鞋。
  Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott clad in a long gray dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers.

Words starting with 踝

• 踝骨huái gǔankle bone; ankle

Words containing 踝

• 脚踝jiǎo huáiankle
• 内踝nèi huáimedial malleolus
• 外踝wài huáilateral malleolus
• 足踝zú huáiankle

Characters that look like 踝

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

• 踩cǎito step on; to tread; to stamp
• 徵zhǐ4th note in the ancient Chinese pentatonic scale 五音
• 蹂róutrample
• 龈yíngums (of the teeth)
• 踞jùto be based upon; to squat
• 瞋chēn(literary) to stare angrily; to glare

Sounds the same

Read huái, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 怀bosom; heart; mind
• 徊used in 徘徊
• 淮name of a river
• 槐Chinese scholar tree (Sophora japonica); Japanese pagoda tree
• 佪irresolute; to move back and forth
• 耲(agriculture) to cultivate with a harrow
• 褢to carry in the bosom or the sleeve; to wrap, to conceal
• 褱to carry in the bosom or the sleeve; to wrap, to conceal