chì

to scold

Original meaning: 

develop new land

Phonosemantic compond: 广 represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally a variant form of , based on the original meaning "to develop new land". The meaning later shifted to "expand", "get rid of", "rebuff", and "scold".

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎnguǎng

  

roof

乇 sound component

  Sound component

tuōzhé

  

to depend on

Definitions

 

chì

to scold, upbraid, accuse, reproach; to blame; to reprove; to reprimand; to expel; to oust; to reconnoiter; (of territory) to expand; saline marsh

Most common words with 斥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

排斥

to reject

充斥

to flood

训斥

to reprimand

to blame

斥责

to lash out

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (2 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tʰAk

tsyhek

chì

rebuff; salty soil


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.7184% of movies

2472nd most common character in movies

1857th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+65A5


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