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郗

xī
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Meanings

  1. 1 surname Xi
  2. 2 (classical) Xi, an ancient Zhou settlement

Examples

我希望你明天能来聚会。
Wǒ xīwàng nǐ míngtiān néng lái jùhuì.
I hope you can come to the party tomorrow.

Tips

history
Not an ordinary word in modern Chinese; it lives on almost only as the surname Xi and as the name of an old Zhou-era town. It is phonetic 希 plus the city radical 阝.
register
Mostly a surname today; the place-name sense is classical and historical only.

Components

radical
阝 yì
city; settlement
The right-side city radical, a squeezed 邑. On the right it always marks a town or place name, the same family as 都 and 郑.
phonetic
希 xī
to hope; rare; phonetic
Fills the left and carries the sound xī exactly. The same element gives the reading of 稀; here it lends pronunciation only, not its "hope" sense.

Stroke Order

郗 xī