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席 - xí

seat; mat; take seat; banquet

seat; mat; take seat; banquet

How to read 席

Click 席 to hear Mandarin pronunciation. Use the example words before memorizing it in isolation.

Hanzi
Traditional
Pinyin
Englishseat; mat; take seat; banquet
Radical hint

Short sentences you can say today

席位 is a common expression. I can make a sentence with 席勒. Please read 席地 one more time.

Common words with this character

a seat; parliamentary or congressional seat
Schiller; Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller , German poet and dramatist
to spread a mat on the ground; to be on the ground or floor
to engulf; to sweep; to carry away everything

Mistake warning

Do not memorize 席 only as an isolated symbol. Read it inside words like 席位 and 席勒 first, then come back to the single-character pronunciation.

Original example sentence

I am learning the character 席.