嗜
shì HSK7

be fond of

嗜 shì
fond of verb
to have a strong liking for or be addicted to

他这人没什么别的爱好，唯独嗜酒如命。

tā zhè rén méi shén​me bié​de ài​hào, wéi​dú shì jiǔ rú mìng.

He has no other hobbies except for an addiction to drinking.

-phile verb
a combining form or stem corresponding to the English suffixes -phil or -phile, used in scientific contexts

嗜热生物可以在极高温度的环境下生存。

shì​rè​shēng​wù kě​yǐ zài jí gāo wēn​dù de huán​jìng xià shēng​cún.

Thermophiles can survive in environments with extremely high temperatures.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,988th most common 9.93 per million
Movie subtitles
2,641st most common 6.60 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.34 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
6.37 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+55DC

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)