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Mythic Mandarin

记 (jì): meaning and stroke order

记 (jì) means to record, to note, to memorize, to remember, mark, sign.

记

Simplified
记
Traditional
記
Pinyin
jì

Stroke order of 记

记

  • jì to record; to note
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 記

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 记

  1. jì Traditional 記
    • to record
    • to note
    • to memorize
    • to remember
    • mark
    • sign
    • classifier for blows, kicks, shots

Radical and structure

记
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 5 strokes · 讠 on the left, 己 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 记

记 in our stories

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  • 会议结束时,经理笑着说:“三十页的材料我可能记不住,这三个圈我记住了。”

    huìyì jiéshù shí jīnglǐ xiào zhe shuō sānshí yè de cáiliào wǒ kěnéng jì bú zhù zhè sān gè quān wǒ jì zhù le

    At the end of the meeting the manager smiled: "I probably wouldn't remember thirty pages, but I remember those three circles."

    From the story Three circles HSK 4

  • 大禹没有急着动手,而是走遍了大江大河,把每一处的地形都仔细地记了下来。

    Dà Yǔ méiyǒu jízhe dòngshǒu érshì zǒubiàn le dà jiāng dà hé bǎ měi yí chù de dìxíng dōu zǐxì de jì le xiàlai

    Yu did not rush in. Instead he travelled every great river and carefully recorded the lie of the land at every point.

    From the story Yu the Great tames the flood HSK 6

  • 马修把这句话记在了心里。桌上的菜一道接一道地上,他每道都吃得干干净净。

    Mǎxiū bǎ zhè jù huà jì zài le xīnli zhuō shàng de cài yí dào jiē yí dào de shàng tā měi dào dōu chī de gāngānjìngjìng

    Matthew took this to heart. Dish after dish arrived, and he finished every one.

    From the story The banquet that never ended HSK 6

Stories using 记

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).