chī

foolish

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
疒 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sick

知 sound,simplified component

  Sound Simplified component

zhī

  

know

Evolution

痴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
痴 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
痴 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
痴 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

 

chī

foolish, stupid, dumb, silly; imbecile; sentimental; stupid; foolish; silly

() 

chī

variant of [chī]

Most common words with 痴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

白痴

idiocy

imbecile

痴呆

imbecility

痴迷

infatuated

痴情

infatuation

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 33.3013% of movies

1088th most common character in movies

2225th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+75F4


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