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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jí | ji2
English translation
perilous, hazardous; steep, high

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Number of strokes

6

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Shān

Part of speech

Idiom / 成语 chéngyǔ Chéngyǔ

Learning hint

mountain

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

山及

Semantic compound

Shān

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. Shān represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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两国 liǎng guó dōu 深受 shēn shòu 失业率 shī yè lǜ 飙升 biāo shēng 预算赤字拉大以及 yǐjí 财政 cáizhèng 岌岌可危 jí jí kě wēi 之苦

Both countries suffer from soaring unemployment, large budget deficits and wobbly financial sectors.

duì de 副手 fù shǒu 很不守信义 Xìn yì 使得 shǐ de de 职位 zhíwèi 岌岌可危 jí jí kě wēi

She was so disloyal to her deputy she made his position untenable.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
岌岌可危 jí jí kě wēi imminent danger (idiom); approaching a crisis岌岌可危 jí jí kě wēi
lofty peak

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