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郗

Chī

Character

What 郗 means

1. surname Chi
2. name of an ancient city

Characters built on 希

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

• 稀xīsparse; scattered; rare; uncommon; diluted; thin; watery
• 烯xīalkene
• 唏xīsound of sobbing
• 浠Xīname of a river in Hubei
• 欷xīto sob

Sounds the same

Read Chī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 吃to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 痴imbecile; sentimental; stupid
• 嗤laugh at; jeer; scoff at
• 哧(onomatopoeia) giggling; breathing; tearing of paper, ripping of fabric etc
• 螭dragon with horns not yet grown (in myth or heraldry); variant of 魑
• 离mythical beast (archaic)
• 笞to whip with bamboo strips
• 黐birdlime
• 蚩ignorant; worm
• 魑used in 魑魅
• 鸱scops owl
• 媸ugly woman