寄
jì HSK4

send

寄 jì
mail verb
to send by post or mail

我给你寄了一封信。

wǒ gěi nǐ jì le yī fēng xìn.

I sent you a letter.

entrust verb
to entrust or place in someone's care

我把孩子寄在邻居家照顾几天。

wǒ bǎ hái​zi jì zài lín​jū jiā zhào​gu jǐ tiān.

I'm leaving my child at the neighbor's house to be looked after for a few days.

foster verb
related by foster care or adoption rather than blood

他有一位寄父，从小就对他非常好。

tā yǒu yī wèi jì fù, cóng xiǎo jiù duì tā fēi​cháng hǎo.

He has a foster father who has been very kind to him since he was a child.

reside verb
to depend on, attach oneself to, or reside temporarily

他这些年一直寄食在亲戚家里。

tā zhè​xiē nián yī​zhí jì​shí zài qīn​qi jiā lǐ.

He has been living off his relatives for all these years.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,611th most common 60.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,319th most common 57.6 per million appears in 24% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
56.2 per million appears in 18% of films
Written text
27.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+5BC4

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