divergent

side road

foot (止) + branch sound (支) = a path that forks

止 evokes a foot on a road, hinting at the act of moving along a path. 支 mainly contributes the sound qí, though its visual sense of a branch splitting off happens to echo the idea of diverging routes.

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FootSemantic

这条路走到头会出现路,要小心选择方向。

zhè tiáo lù zǒu dào tóu huì chū xiàn qí lù ,yào xiǎo xīn xuǎn zé fāng xiàng 。

at the end of this road there will be a fork, so choose your direction carefully.

两人在路上分开,各自走向不同的未来。

liǎng rén zài qí lù shàng fēn kāi ,gè zì zǒu xiàng bù tóng de wèi lái 。

the two people parted ways at the fork in the road, each heading toward a different future.

Words with 歧

分歧

fēn qí

divergent

分歧点

fēn qí diǎn

point of disagreement

性别歧视

xìng bié qí shì

sex discrimination

歧异

qí yì

difference

歧义

qí yì

ambiguity

歧见

qí jiàn

disagreement

歧视

qí shì

to discriminate against

歧路

qí lù

divergent path

歧路灯

qí lù dēng

also written 岐路燈|岐路灯[Qi2 lu4 Deng1]

歧途

qí tú

fork in a road

消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约

xiāo chú duì fù nǚ yī qiè xíng shì qí shì gōng yuē

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

消除歧义

xiāo chú qí yì

to disambiguate

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