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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jī | ji1
English translation
to ridicule
to ridicule, to mock, to jeer

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Number of strokes

4

Traditional form

Contains the radical

yán

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

讠几

Semantic compound

yán

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. yán represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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men 讥笑 jīxiào qióng .

They taunted him with being poor.

无数 wúshù de 经验 jīngyàn 使 shǐ duì 她们 tā men bào zhāo zhǒng 讥嘲不屑 bù xiè de 态度 tàidu .

He maintained a cynical attitude, well grounded on numerous experiences.

男孩 nán hái yīn jiǎo bèi rén 讥笑 jīxiào , biàn 羞怯 xiū qiè ér 压抑 yāyì .

Having been laughed at for his lameness, the boy became shy and inhibited.

zuò hǎo ,” qiáo 安娜 Ān nà 讥讽 jī fěng 地说

"You'll have to do better than that," Joanna scoffed.

de 眼里是不是 shì bù shì 闪过 shǎn guò 一丝讥讽 jī fěng

Was there a glint of mockery in his eyes?

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
讥讽 jī fěng to satirize譏諷
讥笑 jīxiào to sneer譏笑
to ridicule
反唇相讥 fǎn chún xiāng jī to retort反唇相譏
讥诮 jī qiào to deride譏誚
讥刺 jī cì to ridicule譏刺

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Decomposition

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