Chinese mnemonics and annotator
Imjagpul (legacy data - reimport)
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刺 cì thorn
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At the same time as he thrusted forward with the knife she stinged him with a thorn. The dwarf is angry as he has to add two deaths into his statistics. |
Compositions
Explanation of characters by Herbert A. Giles
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Tz'ŭ is composed of 刀 tao knife as radical, and 朿 tz'ŭ a thorn (not 束 shu to bind) as phonetic. It has various extended meanings, such as to blame, to criticise. |
Chinese-English (CC-CEDICT)
刺
cī
(onom.) whoosh
刺
cì
thorn/sting/thrust/to prick/to pierce/to stab/to assassinate/to murder
Phrases ending with the given character
眼yǎn
中zhōng
刺cì
a thorn in one's eye/fig. a thorn in one's flesh
肉ròu
中zhōng
刺cì
a thorn in one's flesh
踢踢tī
马馬mǎ
刺刺cì
horse spur