席 (xí)

Seat; banquet; to attend (bound form used in 出席)

How 席 is written

Strokes
10
Radical
广 — house on cliff
Traditional
席
Simplified
席 (unchanged)

Components

  • 广 house on cliff
  • 廿 two hands/twenty
  • 巾 turban/scarf

Common words using 席

主席 zhǔxí
chairperson; premier; chairman
出席 chūxí
to attend; to participate; present
一席話 yīxíhuà
what is said during a conversation; an utterance
副主席 fùzhǔxí
vice-chairperson
宴席 yànxí
banquet; feast
席位 xíwèi
a seat (in a theater, stadium etc); parliamentary or congressional seat
席捲 xíjuǎn
to engulf; to sweep; to carry away everything
涼席 liángxí
summer sleeping mat (e.g. of woven split bamboo); CL:張|张[zhang1],領|领[ling3]
筵席 yánxí
banquet; mat for sitting
缺席 quēxí
absence; absent
酒席 jiǔxí
feast; banquet
首席 shǒuxí
chief (representative, correspondent etc)

席 in a sentence

你會出席明天的會議嗎?

Nǐ huì chūxí míngtiān de huìyì ma?

“Will you attend tomorrow's meeting?”

How common is 席?

席 is the 892nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 87.3% of all running text.

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