積

简 积 · 繁 積
Mandarin · pinyin jī

Meanings

  1. to amass; to accumulate; to store up
  2. (math.) product (the result of multiplication)
  3. (TCM) constipation; indigestion
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积
jī · accumulate, store up, amass
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

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  1. to store up crops; to store cereal crops
  2. to accumulate; to amass; to store; to gather
  3. to hold in store; to store up (for future use); to be latent
  4. to stagnate; to become stagnant
  5. to add up; to sum up to
  6. accumulated goods
  7. (traditional Chinese medicine) indigestion
  8. (mathematics) short for 乘積/乘积 (chéngjī, “product (in a multiplication)”)
  9. long-standing; long
  10. habitual; inveterate
  11. sixtieth (60th) tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "accumulation" (𝍁)
  12. (Cantonese, card games) jack; knave (Classifier: 隻/只 c)
  13. (Cantonese) alternative form of 唧 (“jack; to jack”)
  14. (Hokkien) to suffer from indigestion (of children)
  15. (archaic) alternative form of 漬 /渍 (zì, “to soak”)
  16. (archaic) alternative form of 績 /绩 (jì, “achievement”)
  17. (archaic) alternative form of 迹 (jì, “movement”)

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