(chí) - spoon; key (second half of "key") in Mandarin
chíTraditional: 匙
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Translation
spoon; key (second half of "key")
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the 匕 (spoon or ladle) radical gives the meaning, and 是 (shì) supplies the sound. It means spoon, and in neutral tone forms the second half of 钥匙 (yàoshi), key.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 是 (shì, phonetic) + 匕 (spoon radical)
Stroke order
匙
Examples
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The key has gone missing.
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Please give me a spoon.
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He opened the door with the key.
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He used a small spoon to drink the soup.
匙 (chí, or neutral tone in 钥匙) means spoon on its own, but is far more common as the second half of 钥匙 (yào shi), key.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 匙.
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