啼
(bound form) to cry; to weep loudly; (bound form) (of a bird or animal) to crow; to hoot; to screech
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,066 U+557C
How 啼 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
口 (semantic, “mouth”) + 帝 (phonetic, dì)
How to remember it
weep aloud · Heisig RSH #1701
口 mouth + 帝 sovereign
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 帝
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 帝 (dì) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 帝 sound component | dì | supreme ruler, emperor; god |
| 蒂 | dì | root cause; the stem of a fruit; the peduncle of a flower |
| 蹄 | tí | hoof; pig's trotter |
| 缔 | dì | to tie, to join; knot, connection |
| 谛 | dì | careful, attentive; to examine; the truth |
| 啻 | chì | only, merely, just; to stop at |
| 碲 | dì | tellurium |
Words containing 啼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 柳啼花怨 | liǔ tí huā yuàn | desolate |
| 尖声啼哭 | jiān shēng tí kū | squeal |
| 啼笑皆非 | tí xiào jiē fēi | lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom); between laughter and tears |
| 杜鹃啼血 | dù juān tí xuè | lit. the cuckoo, after its tears are exhausted, continues by weeping blood (idiom); fig. e… |
| 啼声 | tí shēng | ululation; to howl |
| 啼饥号寒 | tí jī háo hán | (idiom) to cry from hunger and cold; to suffer extreme poverty |
| 悲啼 | bēi tí | to wail with grief; plaintive cry |
| 啼哭 | tí kū | to cry; to wail |
| 哭哭啼啼 | kū ku tí tí | to weep endlessly; interminable wailing |
| 啼啭 | tí zhuàn | to call sweetly (of birds) |