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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
In the end the addiction usually wins.
2
Kleptomania is treatable, but it takes time.
3
When we met, you warned me of your wanderlust.
4
使
1951
The first recorded use of the noun "paedophile" was in 1951.
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Some modern scholars say that there are connotations of pedophilia in this fairy tale.