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Mythic Mandarin

寄 (jì): meaning and stroke order

寄 (jì) means to entrust; to place in sb's care.

寄

Simplified
寄
Traditional
寄 (same form)
Pinyin
jì

Stroke order of 寄

寄

  • jì to entrust; to place in sb's care; (bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily
  • 11 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 寄

  1. jì
    • 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

Radical and structure

寄
Radical 宀 (Kangxi radical 40) · 11 strokes · 宀 on top, 奇 below

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.

寄 in our stories

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  • 半年后，他收到了一封从波兰寄来的信。信里有一张照片：玛尔塔抱着一个小女孩，女孩手里举着一幅画，画上是一座雪山，山顶站着一个小人。

    bànnián hòu tā shōudào le yì fēng cóng Bōlán jì lái de xìn xìn lǐ yǒu yì zhāng zhàopiàn Mǎ'ěrtǎ bào zhe yí gè xiǎo nǚhái nǚhái shǒu lǐ jǔ zhe yì fú huà huà shàng shì yí zuò xuěshān shāndǐng zhàn zhe yí gè xiǎorén

    Six months later a letter came from Poland. Inside was a photo: Marta holding a little girl, and the girl held up a drawing of a snowy mountain with a tiny figure standing on the top.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 寄

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).