寄
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to entrust; to place in sb's care; (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily; (bound form) foster (as in 寄女[ji4 nu : 3] foster daughter); to send by post; to mail
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 宀 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 寄
- Common rank
- #1,409
- Unicode
- U+5BC4
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
mail · Heisig RSH #199
奇 strange + house
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 寄
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 寄生生活 | parasitic life (of an organism); (fig.) parasitic lifestyle (of a person) | |
| 寄生物 | parasite | |
| 寄生者 | parasite (human) | |
| 寄物处 | coat check; cloakroom; checkroom | |
| 寄生虫 | parasite (biology); (fig.) freeloader | |
| 寄件人 | sender | |
| 寄子 | foster son | |
| 寄生 | to live in or on another organism as a parasite; to live by taking advantage of others; pa… | |
| 寄存器 | processor register (computing) | |
| 寄发 | to dispatch; to send out (mail) | |
| 寄出 | to mail; to send by post | |
| 寄物 | to check in items (at a cloakroom, locker etc) | |
| 寄主 | host (of a parasite) | |
| 寄语 | to give an earnest message of good wishes, encouragement, or advice etc; a message of this… | |
| 寄宿学校 | boarding school | |
| 寄名 | adopted name; to take a name (of one's adoptive family) | |
| 寄宿生 | boarder | |
| 千里寄鹅毛 | goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it;… | |
| 转寄 | to forward (a letter, email, package etc) | |
| 寄存处 | warehouse; temporary store; left-luggage office; cloak-room |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 奇 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奇 sound part | strange, unusual, odd; uncanny, occult | |
| 骑 | to ride, to mount; cavalry | |
| 椅 | chair, seat | |
| 绮 | fine silk; elegant, beautiful | |
| 倚 | to rely on, to depend on | |
| 崎 | rough, uneven; jagged, rugged | |
| 旖 | romantic; tender, charming | |
| 犄 | animal horns | |
| 猗 | exclamation of admiration | |
| 剞 | carving or engraving; knife; grave | |
| 埼 | headland | |
| 琦 | jade, gem, precious stone | |
| 掎 | to pull, to drag; to drag one's feet | |
| 欹 | pleading interjection |