斥 - Dong Chinese dictionary

chì

to scold

Original meaning:

develop new land

Phonosemantic compond: 广 represents the meaning and 乇 represents the sound. Originally a variant form of 宅, based on the original meaning "to develop new land". The meaning later shifted to "expand", "get rid of", "rebuff", and "scold".

Components

广 Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

roof

乇 Sound component

tuō, zhé

to depend on

斥 and 乇 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.斥 /*tʰAk/
乇 /*tˤrak/

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 乇 than it was in ancient scripts.

Definitions

斥

chì

to scold, upbraid, accuse, reproach; to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh

Most common words with 斥

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	排斥	to reject
	充斥	to flood
	训斥	to reprimand
	斥	to blame
	斥责	to lash out

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (2 verified)

訴诉拆坼

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*tʰAk	tsyhek	chì	rebuff; salty soil

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.7184% of movies

2472nd most common character in movies

1857th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	5
Unicode	U+65A5

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.724-725

漢語多功能字庫

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