忌
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to be jealous of; fear; dread; scruple; to avoid or abstain from; to quit; to give up sth
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 心 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 忌
- Common rank
- #1,772
- Unicode
- U+5FCC
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Formation & memory
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Words with 忌
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 横行无忌 | (idiom) to run rampant; to act with impunity | |
| 威士忌酒 | whiskey (loanword) | |
| 田忌赛马 | Tian Ji races his horses (and accepts one loss in order to ensure two wins) (idiom) | |
| 长孙无忌 | Zhangsun Wuji (c. 594-659), politician and historian of early Tang | |
| 童言无忌 | children's words carry no harm (idiom) | |
| 百无禁忌 | all taboos are off (idiom); anything goes; nothing is taboo | |
| 外宽内忌 | magnanimous on the outside, but hateful on the inside (idiom) | |
| 投鼠忌器 | lit. to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (idiom); to not ac… | |
| 威士忌 | whiskey (loanword) | |
| 忌口 | abstain from certain food (as when ill); avoid certain foods; be on a diet | |
| 性禁忌 | sexual taboo | |
| 忌日 | anniversary of a death; inauspicious day | |
| 禁忌语 | taboo language | |
| 忌食 | (formal) to avoid (certain foods) | |
| 无所畏忌 | without any fear of consequences; totally devoid of scruples | |
| 忌烟 | to quit smoking | |
| 切忌 | to avoid as taboo; to avoid by all means | |
| 犯忌 | to violate a taboo | |
| 恣行无忌 | to behave recklessly | |
| 禁忌 | taboo; contraindication (medicine); to abstain from |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 己 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 己 sound part | self, oneself; personal, private; 6th heavenly stem | |
| 起 | to begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up | |
| 配 | to blend, to mix; to fit, to match | |
| 纪 | discipline, age; period, era; record, annal | |
| 杞 | willow, medlar tree; a small feudal state | |
| 岂 | what; how | |
| 芑 | white millet | |
| 圮 | destroyed, ruined; to injure; to subvert | |
| 屺 | a grassy knoll; a barren knoll |