脊 jǐ
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- ⺼ — meat, flesh
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
脊梁
jǐliáng
backbone; spine; moral backbone
Characters in this word
梁 liáng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 一个人若在压力面前失去脊梁，再高的职位也遮不住内心的怯懦。 Yí ge rén ruò zài yālì miànqián shīqù jǐliáng, zài gāo de zhíwèi yě zhē bù zhù nèixīn de qiènuò. If a person loses their backbone under pressure, no high position can conceal their inner cowardice.
- 他的脊梁挺得笔直，一点也不像七十岁的人。 Tā de jǐliáng tǐng de bǐzhí, yìdiǎn yě bú xiàng qīshí suì de rén. His back was held perfectly straight, not at all like a man of seventy.
- 干了一天活，他累得脊梁都直不起来了。 Gān le yì tiān huó, tā lèi de jǐliáng dōu zhí bù qǐlái le. After a day of work, he was so tired he couldn't straighten his back.
Related words
- 桥梁 qiáoliáng bridge
- 栋梁 dòngliáng pillar; mainstay; person of great promise
- 伤痕 shānghén scar; wound mark
- 筋 jīn tendon; muscle; vein
- 裸 luǒ to be bare; to be naked; to expose
- 脾 pí spleen
- 裸露 luǒlù to be exposed; to be bare
- 肾 shèn kidney
- 裸体 luǒtǐ naked body; nude; naked
- 内脏 nèizàng internal organs; viscera
- 气管 qìguǎn trachea; windpipe
- 气息 qìxī breath; flavour; atmosphere