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席

xí
noun HSK 7-9 #6,765

Meanings

  1. 1 seat; place
  2. 2 mat; woven mat
  3. 3 banquet; feast
  4. 4 measure word for talks and banquets

Examples

HSK 4
他的一席话让我很感动。
Tā de yì xí huà ràng wǒ hěn gǎndòng.
What he said moved me deeply.
HSK 4
请入席。
Qǐng rùxí.
Please take your seat.
HSK 7-9
宴席上的菜很丰盛。
Yànxí shàng de cài hěn fēngshèng.
The dishes at the banquet were lavish.

Tips

usage
席 is in 主席 (zhǔxí, chairman), 出席 (chūxí, to attend), 缺席 (quēxí, to be absent), and 席位 (xíwèi, seat/position).

Components

radical
巾 jīn
cloth; mat
Bottom 巾 - the indexing radical, picturing a piece of hanging cloth. Declares 席 a piece of woven fabric, the original literal sense of a sitting mat. From seat-mat came place at a banquet and abstractly position or seat (主席 chairperson). Same cloth family: 帽 (hat), 布 (cloth), 帐 (curtain).
semantic
广 guǎng
shelter; eaves (radical)
Outer 广 wraps the upper-left, picturing a hall with sloping eaves. Frames 席 as something inside a building: the seating mat at a banquet. Same shelter pattern in 庭, 庄, 庆, 应.
semantic
廿 niàn
twenty (here: woven pattern)
Middle element pictures the woven cross-hatching of the mat itself. A stylized rendering of intersecting reeds; visually echoes 廿 (twenty) but carries no number meaning here. Pure graphic - shows the weave laid under the eaves.

Stroke Order

席 xí