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Meaning of 羈

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(Simplified: 羁)
Pinyin:
English Definition: bridle; halter; to restrain; to detain; to lodge; inn
Chinese Definition:
①马笼头:无羁之马。羁绁(a。马笼头和缰绳;b。喻束缚)。
②束缚,拘束:羁押。羁绊。羁缚。羁囚。放荡不羁。
③停留,使停留:羁旅(长久寄居他乡)。羁留。羁泊。羁滞。
④古代女孩留在头顶像马笼头的发型。
Total strokes: 24; Radical:
Ideographic:A leather halter used to control a horse
Character Formation:
  • Above to below
    • [ wǎng ] net, network
    • Left to right
      • [ ] leather, animal hide; to reform; to remove
      • [ ] horse; surname
Similar Characters:
Example Words
羈押 to detain; to take into custody; detention; imprisonment
羈絆 bàn trammels; fetters; yoke; to restrain; to hinder; restraint
羈留 liú to stay; to detain
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Example Sentences
1
Every man has his price.
2
Love makes the wildest spirit tame.
3
使
The impatient horse which will not quietly endure his halter only strangles himself in his stall.
4
But in Burma, the dictators have managed not just to cling to power, but to build a foundation for maintaining their stranglehold on the country for the foreseeable future.
5
And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not form love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?