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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
tí | ti2
English translation
forehead; headline, title; theme

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Number of strokes

18

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

head

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

是頁

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

shì

Explanation

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and shì represents the sound. The character is based on the original meaning "forehead", which is unrelated to the modern meaning.

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
问题 wèntí question問題
主题 zhǔtí theme主題
topic
话题 huàtí topic話題
难题 nán tí difficult problem難題
专题 zhuāntí article, report or program etc on a specific topic專題
课题 kètí task課題
题材 tícái subject matter題材
题目 tímù subject題目
标题 biāotí title標題
议题 yì tí topic議題
命题 mìng tí proposition (logic, math.)命題
试题 shì tí exam question試題
出问题 chū wèn tí to have sth go wrong出問題
小题大做 xiǎo tí dà zuò to make a big fuss over a minor issue (idiom)小題大做
选择题 xuǎn zé tí multiple-choice question選擇題
题词 tí cí inscription題詞
跑题 pǎo tí to digress跑題
解题 jiě tí to explicate解題
考题 kǎo tí exam question考題
出题 chū tí to draw up the theme (for discussion)出題
习题 xí tí problem習題

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