叽
Tap the pinyin to hear it
grumble
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 口 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 嘰
- Common rank
- #2,850
- Unicode
- U+53FD
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 叽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不拉叽 | (nasty, stupid etc) as can be | |
| 东方叽咋柳莺 | (bird species of China) mountain chiffchaff (Phylloscopus sindianus) | |
| 磨叽 | (dialect) to dawdle; to waste time; also written 墨跡|墨迹[mo4 ji5] | |
| 叽咋柳莺 | (bird species of China) common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) | |
| 叽里咕噜 | see 嘰哩咕嚕|叽哩咕噜[ji1 li5 gu1 lu1] | |
| 毛哔叽 | serge | |
| 叽叽歪歪 | (coll.) to go on and on (annoyingly); to mouth off; to make a fuss | |
| 叽叽嘎嘎 | (onom.) giggling noise | |
| 叽叽咕咕 | (onom.) to mutter; to mumble; to whisper | |
| 叽哩咕噜 | (onom.) to jabber; to rumble | |
| 咔叽 | khaki (loanword) | |
| 叽叽喳喳 | (onom.) chirp; twitter; buzzing; to chatter continuously | |
| 哔叽 | serge (loanword) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 几 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 几 sound part | small table; how many; a few, some | |
| 肌 | flesh, skin; muscle, tissue; meat on bones | |
| 铅 | lead | |
| 饥 | hungry, starving; hunger, famine | |
| 矶 | jetty, reef; breakwater, eddy | |
| 讥 | to ridicule, to mock, to jeer | |
| 玑 | an oblong pearl | |
| 虮 | nits, lice | |
| 麂 | a species of deer | |
| 処 | place, locale; department |