极 (極) jí

  1. jí adverb extremely; very
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 很 or 甚. 极 is one of the few adverbs that can act as a complement, placed after an adjective or verb, followed by the particle 了. It may be used in this sense in both modern and Literary Chinese. For exmaple, 美极了 'very beautiful' (Guoyu '極' adv 2; Mathews 1931 '極', p. 64; Norman 1988, p. 127; Unihan '極').
  2. jí adverb utmost; furthest
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Comparison
    Notes: In the sense of 最高 or 最大 (Guoyu '極' adv 1; Kroll 2015 '極' 4, p. 185; Mathews 1931 '極', p. 64; Unihan '極')
  3. jí noun extremity
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 尽头 (Guoyu '極' n 2; Kroll 2015 '極' 3, p. 185; Mathews 1931 '極', p. 64)
  4. jí noun ridge-beam of a roof
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: 极 is synonymous with 栋 in this sense. Etymology (Shuo Wen): 極：棟也。 (Kroll 2015 '極' 1, p. 185; Mathews 1931 '極', p. 64)
  5. jí verb to exhaust
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: 极 is synonymous with 栋 in this sense (Guoyu '極' v; Kroll 2015 '極' 3a, p. 185)
  6. jí noun a standard principle
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '極' 1a)
  7. jí noun pinnacle; summit; highpoint
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '極' 2, p. 185; Mathews 1931 '極', p. 64)
  8. jí noun pole
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: As in 南极 'south pole' and 北极 'north pole' (Guoyu '極' n 3; Mathews 1931 '極', p. 64)
  9. jí noun throne
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 君位 (Guoyu '極' n 1)
  10. jí adjective urgent
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: As a variant of 亟 (Kroll 2015 '極' 5, p. 185)
  11. jí noun an electrical pole; a node
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Physics
    Notes: As in the positive and negative nodes of a battery (Guoyu '極' n 4)

Contained in

Also contained in

极光天 、 皇太极清太宗 、 都勃极烈 、 无极县

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words