缉

緝
jī
#3,159 most
frequent character
to seize, to arrest, Taiwan pr. [qi4]

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

缉 has 纟 silk as its meaning part and 咠 qì as its sound part. Read qī, it first meant twisting hemp into rope, later stitching finely. Read jī, it means to arrest; that sense was borrowed for its sound, not from the silk or the old meaning.

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Same Characters, Different Readings

缉qī
to stitch finely

Homophones

鸡jī
chicken
积jī
to amass, to accumulate
几jī
almost
几jī
small table
基jī
(bound form) base, foundation
奇jī
odd (number)
激jī
to arouse, to incite, to excite

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