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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
qí | qi2
English translation
divergent
side road
to diverge, to fork; a branch; a side road

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Number of strokes

8

Traditional form

Contains the radical

zhǐ

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

stop

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

止支

Semantic compound

zhǐ

Phonetic compound

Zhī

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. zhǐ represents the meaning and Zhī represents the sound.

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仅仅 jǐn jǐn shì xiǎo 小的 xiǎo de 分歧 fēnqí --咱们 zámen Bié xiǎo zuò le .

It's only a small disagreement, let's not make an issue of it.

愈来愈 yù lái yù shēn de 分歧 fēnqí 使 shǐ 不同 bù tóng de 年龄 niánlíng qún 互相 hùxiāng 分离 fēn lí .

Increasingly deep cleavages separate one age group from another.

议院 yì yuàn de 意见 yìjiàn yòu 产生 chǎnshēng le 分歧 fēnqí , gāi àn 11 piào 获得 huòdé 通过 tōngguò .

The House again divided, and the bill was passed by 11 votes.

men 指责 zhǐzé 歧视 qíshì 雇员 gù yuán .

They accused him of having a prejudice against his women employees.

就是 jiù shì 你们 nǐ men de 分歧 fēnqí 所在 suǒ zài

That's where you get some differences of opinion.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
歧视 qíshì discrimination歧視
分歧 fēnqí divergent分歧 fēnqí
种族歧视 zhǒng zú qí shì racism種族歧視
歧途 qí tú fork in a road歧途 qí tú
误入歧途 wù rù qí tú to go astray誤入歧途
divergent
歧义 qí yì ambiguity歧義
歧路 qí lù to diverge from the main road, also figuratively歧路 qí lù
歧见 qí jiàn disagreement歧見
歧异 qí yì difference歧異

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Decomposition

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