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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
jī | ji1
English translation
to examine, to investigate

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Number of strokes

15

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Name of a person / 人名 rén míng Rénmíng

Learning hint

grain

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

尤旨

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

zhǐ

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始终 shǐzhōng 老老实实 de péi zhāo ,一直 yīzhí děng 这出滑稽戏 yǎn wán .

I stayed faithfully by him until his comedy was finished.

shuì 遭到 zāo dào 矮小 aǐ xiǎo de 绿 zhǒng rén 绑架 bǎngjià , zhè 纯粹 chúncuì shì 无稽之谈 wú jī zhī tán .

His story of being kidnapped by little green men was sheer absurdity.

这些 zhè xiē 账目 zhàng mù 必须 bìxū yóu jiā wài pìn 审计员 shěn jì yuán de 公司 gōngsī lái 稽查 jī chá .

The accounts have to be audited by a firm of external auditors.

dāng 费塞穿着 chuān zhuó 滑稽 huá jī de 服装 fúzhuāng zǒu 进来 jìn lái shí , luó xiào Zhí 不起 yāo lái .

Rose doubled over when Facer walked in wearing his funny clothes.

老师 lǎoshī wéi 对象 duìxiàng huà le 淘气 táoqì 滑稽 huá jī de 漫画 mànhuà .

She drew a wickedly funny caricature of the teacher.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
滑稽 huá jī comical滑稽 huá jī
稽查 jī chá inspection稽查 jī chá
to inspect
无稽之谈 wú jī zhī tán complete nonsense (idiom)無稽之談
无稽 wú jī nonsense無稽
稽查员 jī chá yuán inspector稽查員
荒诞无稽 huāng dàn wú jī ridiculous荒誕無稽
荒唐无稽 huāng táng wú jī preposterous荒唐無稽

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