靡
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to waste (money)
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 非 +11
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 靡
- Common rank
- #2,369
- Unicode
- U+9761
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Formation & memory
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Words with 靡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 靡不有初，鲜克有终 | almost everything has a start, but not many things have an end (idiom); don't start sth yo… | |
| 风靡一时 | fashionable for a while (idiom); all the rage | |
| 委靡不振 | variant of 萎靡不振[wei3 mi3 bu4 zhen4] | |
| 夸多斗靡 | (idiom) to use literary phrases in one's writing to show off one's erudition | |
| 风靡 | fashionable; popular | |
| 靡靡之音 | (idiom) decadent music | |
| 所向披靡 | (idiom) to sweep everything before one; to be invincible | |
| 华靡 | luxurious; opulent | |
| 靡费 | to waste; to squander | |
| 靡有孑遗 | all dead and no survivors | |
| 委靡 | variant of 萎靡[wei3 mi3] | |
| 萎靡不振 | dispirited and listless (idiom); downcast | |
| 靡烂 | rotting; decaying | |
| 淫靡 | profligate; extravagantly showy; (of music) lascivious; decadent | |
| 披靡 | to be swept by the wind; to be blown about by the wind; to be routed (in battle etc) | |
| 颓靡 | (literary) devastated | |
| 绮靡 | beautiful and intricate; ornate; gorgeous | |
| 奢靡 | extravagant | |
| 萎靡 | listless; dispirited; lacking in vigor; languishing | |
| 侈靡 | wasteful; extravagant |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 麻 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 麻 sound part | hemp, flax, sesame; numb | |
| 摩 | to scour, to rub, to grind; friction | |
| 磨 | millstone; to grind, to polish, to rub, to wear out | |
| 魔 | demon, evil spirit; magic, spell | |
| 糜 | rice gruel, congee; mashed | |
| 嘛 | final exclamatory particle | |
| 麽 | interrogative particle | |
| 縻 | harness, halter; to tie up |