寄
HSK 4freq #2842
Meanings
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- 1.to entrust; to place in sb's care
- 2.(bound form) to depend on; to attach oneself to; to reside temporarily
- 3.(bound form) foster (as in 寄女[jì nu : 3] foster daughter)
- 4.to send by post; to mail
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Wiktionary
- 1.to entrust (with a task)
- 2.to depend on; to adhere to
- 3.to live away from home
- 4.to place (temporarily); to put; to deposit
- 5.to express or convey (one's feelings) through a medium, such as the thing one describes, composes or paints
- 6.to transmit (an item) on behalf of another person; to send (now chiefly through mail); to post
- 7.to use temporarily; to borrow
- 8.to grant; to gift; to bestow
- 9.government official in charge of translating from and into the speech of non-Chinese ethnic groups in China's east (Dongyi)
- 10.to send criminals into exile to the remote areas in the east, as a form of punishment
- 11.not biological; adopted
- 12.an alternate name used for the Dongyi tribes during the Ming Dynasty
- 13.gg, defeat
- 14.to be defeated
- 15.a surname, Ji
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *krals): semantic 宀 (“house”) + phonetic 奇 (OC *kral, *ɡral) ― living away from home. ;"to commit to one's charge" (Lunyu), "to entrust, communicate" (Liji), > "send (a letter)" ;"translator, interpreter" > "an alternate name used for the Dongyi tribes during the Ming Dynasty"
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我記得寄了信。
I remember mailing the letter.
把这封信寄了。
Mail this letter.
她請他寄那封信。
She asked him to mail that letter.
這封信是寄給你。
This letter is addressed to you.
她寄這本書給我。
She sent this book to me.
請用掛號寄這個。
Please send this by registered mail.
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Derived terms
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