noun #14,187

Meanings

  1. 1 artistry; talent; skill
  2. 2 (in ancient times) female entertainer

Examples

Tā yòu zài shuǎ tā de gù jì le.
He's playing his old tricks again.
Bié bèi tā de jìliǎng piàn le.
Don't be fooled by his tricks.

Tips

usage
almost always appears in the compound 伎俩 (jìliǎng, tricks/schemes) or (gùjì, old tricks). It is rarely used alone in modern Chinese. The variant is sometimes used interchangeably in .

Components

radical
rén
person (radical form of 人)
Left person radical — the side form of , a standing figure compressed to two strokes. Indexes in the social-actor family alongside , , , — characters that name people defined by an occupation or role. Here it frames the meaning 'performer, skilled hand.'
phonetic
zhī
branch; support
Right supplies the sound zhī → jì through a regular palatalization shift. The 'branch / skilled hand' meaning of also bleeds in faintly — a is someone whose hands branch off into many trained skills. Same phonetic shows up in , , .

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