| 啼 | |||
| weep, whimper; howl, twitter | |||
| Radical | 口 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 9 | Total Strokes | 12 |
| Mandarin reading | tí | Cantonese reading | tai4 |
| Japanese on reading | tei | Japanese kun reading | naku |
| Korean reading | cey | Vietnamese reading | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 嗁 | ||
| 啼 | |||
| weep, whimper; howl, twitter | |||
| Radical | 口 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 9 | Total Strokes | 12 |
| Mandarin reading | tí | Cantonese reading | tai4 |
| Japanese on reading | tei | Japanese kun reading | naku |
| Korean reading | cey | Vietnamese reading | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 嗁 | ||
| 啼啭 | [ tí zhuàn ] to call sweetly (of birds) |
| 啼声 | [ tí shēng ] ululation, to howl |
| 啼饥号寒 | [ tí jī haó hán ] hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty |
| 啼 | [ tí ] variant of 啼[ti2] |
| ⇒ 尖声啼哭 | [ jiān shēng tí kū ] squeal |
| ⇒ 杜鹃啼血 | [ dù juān tí xuè ] lit. the cuckoo, after its tears are exhausted, continues by weeping blood (idiom), fig. extreme grief |