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Mythic Mandarin

挤 (jǐ): meaning and stroke order

挤 (jǐ) means to crowd in, to cram in, to force others aside, to press, to squeeze.

挤

Simplified
挤
Traditional
擠
Pinyin
jǐ

Stroke order of 挤

挤

  • jǐ to crowd in; to cram in
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 擠

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 挤

  1. jǐ Traditional 擠
    • to crowd in
    • to cram in
    • to force others aside
    • to press
    • to squeeze
    • to find (time in one's busy schedule)

Radical and structure

挤
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 9 strokes · 扌 on the left, 齐 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 挤

挤 in our stories

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  • 社区调解室的门一开,两个人同时挤了进来,谁也不看谁。

    shèqū tiáojiěshì de mén yì kāi liǎng gè rén tóngshí jǐ le jìnlai shéi yě bú kàn shéi

    The door of the community mediation room opened and two people squeezed in at the same moment, neither looking at the other.

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 挤

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).