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Meaning of 嗜

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Pinyin: shì
English Definition: addicted to; fond of; stem corresponding to -phil or -phile
Chinese Definition:
①喜欢,爱好:嗜学。嗜酒。嗜好(hào)。嗜欲。嗜痂之癖(形容人的乖僻嗜好。亦称“嗜痂成癖”)。
Total strokes: 13; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (mouth) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Left to right
    • [ kǒu ] mouth; entrance, gate, opening
    • [ ] man of sixty; aged, old
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Example Words
嗜好 shì hào hobby; indulgence; habit; addiction
嗜血 shì xuè bloodthirsty; bloodsucking; hemophile
嗜欲 shì lust
嗜杀成性 shì shā chéng xìng bloodthirsty
嗜酒如命 shì jiǔ mìng to love wine as one's life (idiom); fond of the bottle
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Example Sentences
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He is addicted to smoking.
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Vicious and addicted to warfare, wrote Hobbes.
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In the end the addiction usually wins.
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Ironically, my husband was fixated on the fact that I might be an alcoholic.
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The probable cause in this case: microbes digesting oil and methane gas from the spill.