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Meaning of 癖

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Pinyin:
English Definition: habit; hobby
Chinese Definition:
①对事物的偏爱成为习惯:癖习。癖好(hào)。癖性。癖爱。癖痼(久治不愈的疾病)。洁癖。
②中医指饮水不消的病。
③古同“痞”,痞块。
Total strokes: 18; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (sickness) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Surround from upper left
    • [ ] sickness, disease
    • [ ] law, rule; to open up, to develop
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Example Words
癖好 hào one''s passion; one's obsession
怪癖 guài eccentricity; peculiarity; strange hobby
洁癖 jié mysophobia; obsession with cleanliness; extreme fastidiousness
痼癖 addiction
恋物癖 liàn (sexual) fetishism
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Example Sentences
1
西
Would that be the ultimate addiction, or would most people, as they do now, control themselves?
2
西
It' s best if you refrain from buying too many more unnecessary clothes, but I know some of you are shopaholics, and even the rest of us accumulate stuff over time.
3
In fact it mystified me so much that it took me a while to figure out that a shoe fetish had anything to do with sexual excitement.
4
30
In a decision that's outraged much of Belgium, the former wife and accomplice of a convicted paedophile is to be released early from prison, having served less than half of her 30-year sentence.
5
使1951
The first recorded use of the noun "paedophile" was in 1951.