(chī) - foolish, infatuated in Mandarin
chīTraditional: 痴
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Translation
foolish, infatuated
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the sickness radical 疒 frames the sense of a disordered or impaired mind, and 知 (zhī, to know) supplies the sound, giving the meaning foolish or infatuated.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 疒 (sickness radical) + 知 (zhī, phonetic)
Stroke order
痴
Examples
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Do not call people idiots.
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He is infatuated with her.
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I am not an idiot.
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His love for her is obsessive.
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He stared at her in a daze.
痴 (chī) means foolish or infatuated, and forms 白痴 (bái chī), idiot.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 痴.
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