HSK 6 · Verbs

激励 jīlì “to encourage” in Chinese

Traditional 激勵

What 激励 means

  1. to encourage
  2. to motivate
  3. incentive
  4. to urge
  5. motivation

How to say 激励

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale激jī1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale励lì4th tone, falling

激励 in a sentence

  1. 他的演说激励了所有的男孩。

    Tā de yǎnshuō jīlì le suǒyǒu de nánhái.

    His speech inspired all the boys.

    Sentence #846026 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 激励 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 激 (jī) with each of its parts in a different colour
激jīto arouse
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 敫ancient musical instrument · jiǎoSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 敫 (jiǎo) hints at the sound. Compare it with jī.

The character 励 (lì) with each of its parts in a different colour
励lìto encourage
  • 厉whetstone · lìSound part
  • 力strength · lìMeaning part

力 hints at the meaning (strength); 厉 (lì) hints at the sound. Compare it with lì.

How to write 激励

激 16 strokes · 励 7 strokes

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激励 (jīlì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 激励 (jīlì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 激励

Words with 激

激动jīdòng · excited刺激cìjī · to stimulate激烈jīliè · (of competition or fighting) intense感激gǎnjī · to be grateful冰激凌bīngjīlíng · ice cream激发jīfā · to arouse激情jīqíng · passion

Words with 励

鼓励gǔlì · to encourage勉励miǎnlì · to encourage奖励jiǎnglì · to reward

More words: Thinking & Talking

交涉jiāoshè · to negotiate借鉴jièjiàn · to learn from揭露jiēlù · to expose激发jīfā · to arouse警告jǐnggào · to warn讥笑jīxiào · to sneer at记载jìzǎi · to record聚精会神jùjīnghuìshén · to concentrate fully

FAQs

激励 (jīlì) means “to encourage” or “to motivate”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it jīlì: jī with a 1st tone, then lì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 激励 is written 激勵. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jili with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 激励 from the suggestions. Typing jili into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
激励 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.