忌
jì HSK7

jealous

忌 jì
dread verb
to fear, dread, or have scruples about something

他说话直来直去，从来没有什么忌。

tā shuō​huà zhí​lái​zhí​qù, cóng​lái méi​yǒu shén​me jì.

He is very straightforward and never has any inhibitions in what he says.

abstain verb
to avoid, abstain from, or give up something

医生叮嘱他在服药期间要忌酒。

yī​shēng dīng​zhǔ tā zài fú​yào qī​jiān yào jì​jiǔ.

The doctor instructed him to abstain from alcohol while taking the medicine.

envy verb
to be jealous or envious of someone

他由于忌才，一直打压那个年轻的程序员。

tā yóu​yú jì​cái, yī​zhí dǎ​yā nà​gè nián​qīng de chéng​xù​yuán.

Because he was jealous of talent, he kept suppressing that young programmer.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,922nd most common 41.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,773rd most common 28.4 per million appears in 15% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.890 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
17.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5FCC

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