Chinese Character Wiki

譏

jī

ridicule

Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 幾 represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

言  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

幾 sound component

幾  Sound component

jǐ, jī

  

how much

Evolution

譏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

讥 (譏) 

jī

ridicule, jeer, mock; inspect; to ridicule

Most common words with 譏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

讥讽

to satirize

讥笑

to sneer

讥

to ridicule

反唇相讥

to retort

讥诮

to deride

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2922nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Simplified

讥

Unicode

U+8B4F

Shuowen

“譏，誹也。从言，幾聲。”


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