啼
Ancient forms
1 formForms of 嗁, a traditional form of 啼.
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Meaning
tí ti2
- (bound form) to cry; to weep loudly
- (bound form) (of a bird or animal) to crow; to hoot; to screech
Example sentences
Words with 啼
- 啼声 tíshēng ululation
- 悲啼 bēití to wail with grief
- 啼哭 tíkū to cry
- 啼啭 tízhuàn to call sweetly (of birds)
- 柳啼花怨 liǔtíhuāyuàn desolate
- 哭哭啼啼 kūkutítí to weep endlessly
- 尖声啼哭 jiānshēngtíkū squeal
- 杜鹃啼血 dùjuāntíxuè lit. the cuckoo, after its tears are exhausted, continues by weeping blood (idiom)
- 啼笑皆非 tíxiàojiēfēi lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom)
- 啼饥号寒 tíjīháohán hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty