Chinese Character Wiki

踟

chí

hesitate

Components
足 meaning component

足  Meaning component

zú, jù

  

foot

foot

知 sound component

知  Sound component

zhī

  

know

Definitions

踟  

chí

hesitate, undecided; embarrassed; hesitating; undecided; hesitant

Most common words with 踟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

踟

hesitating

踟蹰

to waver

踟蹰不前

hesitant to take action

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[d]re

drje

chí

踟躕 *[d]re.[d]ro walk hesitatingly


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6041st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8E1F


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