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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
Jí | Ji2
English translation
surname Ji
book or record
registry
roll
place of one's family or ancestral records
membership
register, record, list, census

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Number of strokes

20

Traditional form

Contains the radical

zhú

Part of speech

Noun morpheme / 名语素 Míng yǔsù

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bamboo

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

⺮耤

Semantic compound

zhú

Phonetic compound

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书籍 shūjí 目录 mùlù Chéng Suǒ .

Catalogues of our books will be sent on request.

Cóng 1915 Nián chūn 开始 kāishǐ , 他们 tā men de 文章 wénzhāng 书籍 shūjí xiàng 洪水 hóngshuǐ 一般 yībān 泛滥 fànlàn .

Beginning in the spring of 1915, they poured out articles and books in a virtual flood.

我们 wǒmen liǎ shì 同一 tóng yī 国籍 guójí de rén .

We were both of the same nationality.

我们 wǒmen 已经 yǐjīng 聘请 pìn qǐng le wèi 外籍 wài jí 老师 lǎoshī 作为 zuòwéi 语音 yǔ yīn 顾问 gùwèn .

Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.

zhè shì běn 18世纪 shìjì 书籍 shūjí de 复制 fùzhì bǎn .

This a facsimile edition of an eighteenth century book.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
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书籍 shūjí books書籍
国籍 guójí nationality國籍
户籍 hù jí census register戶籍
外籍 wài jí foreign (i.e. of foreign nationality)外籍 wài jí
美籍 Měi jí American (i.e. of US nationality)美籍 Měi jí
秘籍 mì jí rare book秘籍 mì jí
学籍 xué jí registration as a current student學籍
党籍 dǎng jí party membership黨籍
古籍 gǔ jí ancient text古籍 gǔ jí
籍贯 jíguàn one's native place籍貫
祖籍 zǔ jí ancestral hometown祖籍 zǔ jí
原籍 yuán jí birthplace原籍 yuán jí
入籍 rù jí to become naturalized入籍 rù jí
中国籍 Zhōng guó jí Chinese (i.e. of Chinese nationality)中國籍
史籍 shǐ jí historical records史籍 shǐ jí
典籍 diǎn jí ancient books or records典籍 diǎn jí
会籍 huì jí membership (of a club etc)會籍
双重国籍 shuāng chóng guó jí dual citizenship雙重國籍
经籍 jīng jí religious text經籍
外籍劳工 wài jí láo gōng foreign worker外籍勞工
船籍 chuán jí ship's registry船籍 chuán jí
名籍 míng jí roll名籍 míng jí

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