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  *四* | 四* | *四
four / 4
HSK 1
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  *死* | 死* | *死
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
HSK 3
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  *寺* | 寺* | *寺
Buddhist temple / mosque / government office (old)
HSK 6
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  *丝* | 丝* | *丝
silk / thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips / classifier: a trace (of smoke etc), a tiny bit etc
HSK 7-9
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  *撕* | 撕* | *撕
to tear
HSK 7-9
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  *斯* | 斯* | *斯
Slovakia / Slovak / abbr. for 斯洛伐克
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  *斯* | 斯* | *斯
(phonetic) / this
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  *食* | 食* | *食
to feed (a person or animal)
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  *帕* | 帕* | *帕
to wrap / kerchief / handkerchief / headscarf / pascal (SI unit)
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  *俟* | 俟* | *俟
(literary) to wait for
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  *思* | 思* | *思
to think / to consider
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  *司* | 司* | *司
surname Si
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  *司* | 司* | *司
to take charge of / to manage / department (under a ministry)
newton (SI unit of force)
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  *肆* | 肆* | *肆
four (banker's anti-fraud numeral) / unrestrained / wanton / (literary) shop
Si River in Shandong
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  *泗* | 泗* | *泗
river in Shandong
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  *泗* | 泗* | *泗
nasal mucus
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  *锶* | 锶* | *锶
strontium (chemistry)
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  *纟* | 纟* | *纟
"silk" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 120), occurring in 紅|红, 綠|绿, etc / also pr. [mi4]
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *偲* | 偲* | *偲
used in 偲偲
music notation in which the notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La and Si are represented by numerals 1 to 7
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  *伺* | 伺* | *伺
to watch / to wait / to examine / to spy
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  *俟* | 俟* | *俟
variant of
Si County or Sixian, a county in Suzhou 宿州, Anhui
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  *祀* | 祀* | *祀
to sacrifice / to offer libation to
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  *厕* | 厕* | *厕
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  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
surname Si
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  *姒* | 姒* | *姒
wife or senior concubine of husbands older brother (old) / elder sister (old)
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  *驷* | 驷* | *驷
team of 4 horses
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  *汜* | 汜* | *汜
stream which returns after branching
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  *饲* | 饲* | *饲
to raise / to rear / to feed
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  *巳* | 巳* | *巳
6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake / ancient Chinese compass point: 150°
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  *嗣* | 嗣* | *嗣
succession (to a title) / to inherit / continuing (a tradition) / posterity
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  *嘶* | 嘶* | *嘶
hiss / neigh / Ss! (sound of air sucked between the teeth, indicating hesitation or thinking over)
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  *兕* | 兕* | *兕
animal cited in ancient texts, resembling a buffalo (some say rhinoceros or female rhinoceros)
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  *耜* | 耜* | *耜
plow / plowshare
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  *涘* | 涘* | *涘
river bank
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  *咝* | 咝* | *咝
(onom.) to hiss / to whistle / to whiz / to fizz
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  *缌* | 缌* | *缌
fine linen
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  *覗* | 覗* | *覗
peek
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  *蛳* | 蛳* | *蛳
snail
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  *鸶* | 鸶* | *鸶
heron
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  *笥* | 笥* | *笥
square bamboo container for food or clothing
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  *祀* | 祀* | *祀
variant of
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  *虒* | 虒* | *虒
amphibious animal with one horn
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  *私* | 私* | *私
personal / private / selfish
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  *澌* | 澌* | *澌
drain dry / to exhaust
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  *禠* | 禠* | *禠
felicity / blessing
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  *〤* | 〤* | *〤
numeral 4 in the Suzhou numeral system 蘇州碼子|苏州码子
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  *亖* | 亖* | *亖
old variant of
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  *罳* | 罳* | *罳
screen
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  *柶* | 柶* | *柶
spoon / ladle
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  *儩* | 儩* | *儩
the end / to finish
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  *厮* | 厮* | *厮
(bound form) together; each other / (bound form) male servant / (bound form) dude; so-and-so (used in 那廝|那厮 and 這廝|这厮)
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  *饲* | 饲* | *饲
old variant of 飼|饲
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  *似* | 似* | *似
to seem / to appear / to resemble / similar / -like / pseudo- / (more) than
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  *㟃* | 㟃* | *㟃
(used in place names)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *厶* | 厶* | *厶
old variant of
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *飔* | 飔* | *飔
cool breeze of autumn
farad, SI unit of electrical capacitance (loanword)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *厮* | 厮* | *厮
variant of 廝|厮
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  *似* | 似* | *似
old variant of
Li Si, name for an unspecified person, second of a series of three: 張三|张三, 李四, 王五 Tom, Dick and Harry
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *䦉* | 䦉* | *䦉
variant of
Li Si (c. 280-208 BC), Legalist philosopher, calligrapher and prime minister of Qin kingdom and Qin dynasty from 246 to 208 BC
yin si juan, steamed bun from Shandong province with hand-drawn dough threads folded over
four-substance decoction (si wu tang), tonic formula used in Chinese medicine
Si Wenming, personal name of Yu the Great 大禹
Zuo Si (3rd century), Jin dynasty writer and poet


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