凄 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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qī

bitter cold

Phonosemantic compound. 冫 represents the meaning and 妻 represents the sound. Simplified form of 淒.

Components

冫 Meaning component

bīng

ice

冫 is a component form of 冰.

妻 Sound component

qī, qì

wife

Definitions

qī

bitter cold, miserable, dreary; intense cold; frigid; dismal; grim; bleak; sad; mournful; also written 淒|凄[qī]

qī

variant of 淒|凄[qī]

Most common words with 凄

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5057% of movies

3175th most common character in movies

2352nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	10
Unicode	U+51C4

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