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阋

xì

Character Traditional 鬩

What 阋 means

1. to argue
2. to quarrel

Words containing 阋

• 兄弟阋墙xiōng dì xì qiánginternecine strife (idiom); fighting among oneself
• 兄弟阋于墙，外御其侮xiōng dì xì yú qiáng , wài yù qí wǔinternal disunity dissolves at the threat of an invasion from outside (idiom)

Characters built on 兒

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

• 倪ní(literary) small child; (literary) limit; bound; extremity; (literary) to differentiate
• 霓níJapanese cicada; old variant of 霓
• 睨nìto look askance at
• 鲵níCryptobranchus japonicus; salamander
• 猊níused in 狻猊

Sounds the same

Read xì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 戏trick; drama; play
• 系to connect; to relate to; to tie up
• 细thin or slender; finely particulate; thin and soft
• 隙crack; crevice; gap or interval
• 潟saline land; salt marsh
• 舄shoe; slipper
• 盻to glare at
• 禊semiannual ceremony of purification
• 饩grain ration; sacrificial victim
• 虩terrified
• 匸"cover" or "conceal" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 23)…
• 㣟to go; to walk