刺激
cì jī 4–1
to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite; irritant
- Characters
- 2
- 刺 · 激
- Syllables
- 2
- cì jī
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,968
Part of speech: v,vn
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
你今年做的最刺激的事是什么？
Nǐ jīn nián zuò de zuì cì jī de shì shì shén me
What's the most exciting thing you've done this year?
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 刺激. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 激动jī dòngHSK 4
to move emotionally; to stir up (emotions); to excite
- 刺cìHSK 4
thorn; sting; thrust; to prick; to pierce; to stab; to assassinate; to murder
- 激情jī qíngHSK 6
passion; fervor; enthusiasm; strong emotion
- 激烈jī lièHSK 4
(of competition or fighting) intense; fierce; (of pain) acute; (of an expression of opinion) impassioned; vehement; (of a course of action) drastic; extreme
- 感激gǎn jīHSK 7
to be grateful; to appreciate; thankful
- 激励jī lìHSK 7
to encourage; to urge; motivation; incentive
- 激发jī fāHSK 7
to arouse; to stimulate; (physics) to excite
- 讽刺fěng cìHSK 7
to satirize; to mock; irony; satire; sarcasm
- 激光jī guāngHSK 7
laser
- 激活jī huóHSK 7
to activate
- 激素jī sùHSK 7
hormone
- 激起jī qǐHSK 7
to arouse; to evoke; to cause; to stir up
- 冲刺chōng cìHSK 7
(sports) to sprint; to spurt; to dash; to put in a big effort to achieve a goal as the deadline approaches
- 刺绣cì xiùHSK 7
to embroider; embroidery
- 刺耳cì ěrHSK 7
ear-piercing
- 刺骨cì gǔHSK 7
piercing; cutting; bone-chilling; penetrating (cold)
- 激化jī huàHSK 7
to intensify