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蟋

xī
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 蟋蟀) cricket (insect)

Examples

秋夜蟋蟀叫个不停。
Qiūyè xīshuài jiào gè bùtíng.
Crickets chirp endlessly on autumn nights.
他小时候爱捉蟋蟀。
Tā xiǎoshíhou ài zhuō xīshuài.
As a child he loved catching crickets.

Tips

culture
Only used in 蟋蟀 (cricket). Cricket-fighting was a popular pastime in old China, and the chirping cricket is a stock image of autumn and homesickness in classical poetry.

Components

radical
虫 chóng
insect
Left 虫 (insect), the indexing radical. It marks 蟋 as a bug, alongside the whole insect-name family like 蝴蝶 (butterfly).
phonetic
悉 xī
to know fully; phonetic
Right 悉 supplies the sound exactly (xī = xī). It is purely phonetic here — no meaning contribution.

Stroke Order

蟋 xī