King's Kung-Fu& Tai Chi

弛 — Chinese character

弛
chí
to loosen, to relax; to unstring a bow

Pinyin
chí
Radical
57 ⼸ (Bow)
Strokes
6
Components
弓 也
Formation
pictophonetic — bow; meaning component 弓; sound component 也
Japanese
弛 as a kanji

Common words with 弛

WordPinyinMeaning
松弛 (鬆弛)sōng chíto relax; relaxed
废弛 (廢弛)fèi chíto fall into disuse (of laws, customs etc); to neglect
弛缓 (弛緩)chí huǎnto relax; to slacken; to ease; (physics) relaxation (in nuclear magnetic resonance)
张弛 (張弛)zhāng chítension and relaxation
弛张热 (弛張熱)chí zhāng rèremittent fever
懈弛xiè chíslack (discipline)
松弛法 (鬆弛法)sōng chí fǎrelaxation (alternative medicine)

弛 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Art of War 2

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.