啬
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stingy
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 口 +8
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 嗇
- Common rank
- #4,896
- Unicode
- U+556C
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 啬
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吝啬鬼 | miser; penny-pincher | |
| 吝啬 | stingy; mean; miserly |
Sound family
These characters use 啬 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 啬 sound part | miserly, stingy, thrifty | |
| 墙 | wall | |
| 蔷 | rose | |
| 樯 | mast, boom, yard-arm | |
| 穑 | to farm, to harvest grain | |
| 嫱 | lady |