池 — Chinese character
池
chí
pool, pond; moat; cistern
- Pinyin
- chí
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 氵 也
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 也
- Japanese
- 池 as a kanji
Common words with 池
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 电池 (電池) | diàn chí | battery; electric cell; 节 (jié),组 (zǔ) |
| 游泳池 | yóu yǒng chí | swimming pool |
| 泳池 | yǒng chí | swimming pool |
| 池塘 | chí táng | pool; pond |
| 水池 | shuǐ chí | pond; pool |
| 浴池 | yù chí | public bath |
| 城池 | chéng chí | city |
| 蓄电池 (蓄電池) | xù diàn chí | secondary (rechargeable) battery; accumulator; storage cell |
| 天池 | tiān chí | "heavenly lake", lake situated on a mountain; used as the name of numerous lakes, such as 长白山天池 (Cháng bái shān Tiān chí) |
| 池子 | chí zi | pond; bathhouse pool |
| 蓄水池 | xù shuǐ chí | water reservoir |
| 鱼池 (魚池) | yú chí | fishpond |
English words written with 池
池 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 7 · Zhuangzi 6
- Mencius 1A.2
- Mencius 1A.3
- Mencius 1B.13
- Mencius 2B.1
- Mencius 3B.9
- Mencius 5A.2
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
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.