chī

silly

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

疑 sound component

  Sound component

  

doubt

Evolution

癡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
癡 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
癡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chī

silly, foolish, idiotic

() 

chī

variant of [chī]

Most common words with 癡
Freq.
Word
Meaning

白痴

idiocy

imbecile

痴呆

imbecility

痴迷

infatuated

痴情

infatuation

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 33.3013% of movies

1088th most common character in movies

2225th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Unicode

U+7661

Shuowen

“癡,不慧也。从疒,疑聲。”


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