恃

(bound form) to rely on; (literary) one's mother

9 strokes Dict coverage rank #3,128 U+6043

Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

忄 (semantic, “heart”) + 寺 (phonetic, sì)

components: 忄寺

Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 寺

Siblings built with the same phonetic component 寺 (sì) — compare how they read:

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
寺 sound component	sì	court, office; temple, monastery
特	tè	special, unique, distinguished
持	chí	to hold, to support, to sustain
诗	shī	poetry; poem, verse, ode
侍	shì	to serve, to attend upon; servant, attendant; samurai
峙	zhì	to pile, to stack; to stand tall
痔	zhì	piles, hemorrhoids

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
有恃无恐	yǒu shì wú kǒng	secure in the knowledge that one has backing
恃才傲物	shì cái ào wù	(idiom) to be inordinately proud of one's ability; to be conceited and contemptuous
自恃	zì shì	self-esteem; self-reliance; overconfident; conceited
恃强凌弱	shì qiáng líng ruò	see 恃強欺弱\|恃强欺弱[shi4 qiang2 qi1 ruo4]
可恃	kě shì	reliable
恃强欺弱	shì qiáng qī ruò	to use one's strength to mistreat people (idiom); to bully
失恃	shī shì	to lose sb one relies upon; to lose one's mother
凭恃	píng shì	to depend on; to rely on
仗恃	zhàng shì	to rely on; to depend on
怙恃	hù shì	to rely on; father and mother (classical)