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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

Examples

他是这次会议的主席。
Tā shì zhècì huìyì de zhǔxí.
He is the chairman of this meeting.
宴席上的菜很丰盛。
Yànxí shàng de cài hěn fēngshèng.
The dishes at the banquet were lavish.
请入席。
Qǐng rùxí.
Please take your seat.

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