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鼻

bí

HSK 3 Character

What 鼻 means

1. nose

Example sentences

• 我流鼻涕。
  Wǒ liú bítì.
  My nose is running.
• 她在流鼻血。
  Tā zài liú bíxiě.
  Her nose is bleeding.
• 您流鼻血了。
  Your nose is bleeding.
• 大象鼻子长。
  An elephant has a long nose.
• 男孩流鼻血。
  The boy's nose was bleeding.
• 他的鼻子很长。
  He has a long nose.

Words starting with 鼻

• 鼻子bí zinose
• 鼻涕bí tìnasal mucus; snivel; snot
• 鼻孔bí kǒngnostril
• 鼻梁bí liángbridge of the nose
• 鼻尖bí jiāntip of the nose
• 鼻头bí tóutip of the nose; (dialect) nose
• 鼻音bí yīnnasal sound
• 鼻腔bí qiāngnasal cavity
• 鼻祖bí zǔthe earliest ancestor; originator (of a tradition, school of thought etc)
• 鼻息bí xībreath
• 鼻青脸肿bí qīng liǎn zhǒnga bloody nose and a swollen face; badly battered
• 鼻翼bí yìthe wing of the nose; ala nasi
• 鼻炎bí yánrhinitis
• 鼻儿bí reye; a hole in an implement or utensil for insertion
• 鼻塞bí sèto have a stuffy nose
• 鼻托bí tuōnose pad (on eyeglasses)
• 鼻毛bí máonose hair
• 鼻水bí shuǐnasal mucus; snivel
• 鼻烟bí yānsnuff (powdered tobacco for sniffing)
• 鼻环bí huánnose ring
• 鼻酸bí suānto have a tingling sensation in one's nose (due to grief, pungent odor or taste)…
• 鼻骨bí gǔnasal bone
• 鼻中隔bí zhōng génasal septum
• 鼻出血bí chū xuènosebleed

Words containing 鼻

• 扑鼻pū bíto assail the nostrils (of fragrance and odors)
• 嗤之以鼻chī zhī yǐ bíto snort disdainfully; to scoff at; to turn up one's nose
• 刺鼻cì bíto assail the nostrils; acrid; pungent
• 口鼻kǒu bímouth and nose; (an animal's) snout
• 北鼻běi bíbaby (loanword)
• 印鼻yìn bídecorated knob protruding from seal, allowing it to be strung on a cord
• 针鼻zhēn bíthe eye of a needle
• 阿鼻Ā bíCeaseless pain (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells; fig. hell; hell on earth
• 下鼻甲xià bí jiǎinferior nasal conchae
• 前鼻音qián bí yīnalveolar nasal; consonant n produced in the nose with the tongue against the alveolar…
• 哭鼻子kū bí zito snivel (usually humorous)
• 喷鼻息pēn bí xīto snort
• 后鼻音hòu bí yīnvelar nasal; consonant ng or ŋ produced in the nose with the back of the tongue against…
• 挖鼻子wā bí zito pick one's nose
• 流鼻血liú bí xiěto bleed from the nose; (fig.) to be sexually aroused
• 牛鼻子niú bí zikey point; crux; (old) Daoist (facetious)
• 白鼻子bái bí zicunning or sly person
• 白鼻心bái bí xīn(Taiwan) masked palm civet (Paguma larvata)
• 老鼻子lǎo bí zimany
• 象鼻山Xiàng bí ShānElephant Trunk Hill in Guilin, Guangxi
• 象鼻虫xiàng bí chóngweevil; snout beetle
• 酒糟鼻jiǔ zāo bírosacea (dermatological condition of the face and nose); brandy nose
• 长鼻目cháng bí mùorder Proboscidea (elephants and mammoths)
• 仰人鼻息yǎng rén bí xīto rely on others for the air one breathes (idiom)…

Characters built on 自

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

• 息xībreath; news; interest (on an investment or loan)
• 憩qìto rest
• 洎jìto reach; when

Characters that look like 鼻

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

• 寨zhàistronghold; stockade; camp
• 罩zhàoto cover; to spread over; a cover; a shade; a hood; bamboo fish trap
• 舅jiùmaternal uncle
• 睾gāo(bound form) testicle
• 嵩sōng(literary) (of mountains) lofty
• 蕈xùnmold; mushroom

Sounds the same

Read bí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 荸used in 荸荠