啼 — Chinese character
啼
tí
to weep, to whimper; to howl; to crow
- Pinyin
- tí
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 口 帝
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 帝
- Japanese
- 啼 as a kanji
Common words with 啼
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 哭哭啼啼 | kū ku tí tí | to weep endlessly; interminable wailing |
| 啼笑皆非 | tí xiào jiē fēi | lit. not to know whether to laugh or cry (idiom); between laughter and tears |
| 啼哭 | tí kū | to cry; to wail |
| 啼声 (啼聲) | tí shēng | ululation; to howl |
| 啼啭 (啼囀) | tí zhuàn | to call sweetly (of birds) |
| 啼饥号寒 (啼饑號寒) | tí jī háo hán | (idiom) to cry from hunger and cold; to suffer extreme poverty |
| 尖声啼哭 (尖聲啼哭) | jiān shēng tí kū | squeal |
| 悲啼 | bēi tí | to wail with grief; plaintive cry |
| 杜鹃啼血 (杜鵑啼血) | dù juān tí xuè | lit. the cuckoo, after its tears are exhausted, continues by weeping blood (idiom); fig. extreme grief |
| 柳啼花怨 | liǔ tí huā yuàn | desolate |
啼 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 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.