Chinese Character Wiki

嫉

jí

jealousy

An envious 疾 woman 女; 疾 also provides the pronunciation

Components
女 meaning component

女  Meaning component

nǚ, rǔ

  

woman

疾 sound,meaning component

疾  Sound Meaning component

jí

  

illness

Evolution

嫉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嫉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嫉 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
嫉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

嫉  

jí

jealousy; be jealous of; to be jealous of

Most common words with 嫉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

嫉妒

to envy

嫉

jealousy

愤世嫉俗

to be cynical

妒嫉

envy

嫉恨

to resent

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.9516% of movies

1793rd most common character in movies

2690th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+5AC9

Shuowen

“，妎也。从人，疾聲。一曰毒也。嫉，或从女。”


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