稀 xī
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xī
adjective
diluted; sparse
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '稀'; Guoyu '稀' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '稀', p. 486; Unihan '稀') -
xī
adjective
vague; unclear
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '稀' adj 4) -
xī
adverb
very
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '稀' adv) -
xī
adjective
rare; unusual; scarce; few
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '稀' adj 2; Unihan '稀')
Contained in
- 物以稀为贵(物以稀為貴) the rarer something is, the greater its value
- 稀土金属(稀土金屬) rare earth element
- 稀松(稀鬆) poor; sloppy; unconcerned; heedless; lax; unimportant; trivial; loose; porous
- 珍稀 rare; precious and uncommon
- 稀松骨质(稀鬆骨質) cancellous bone; trabecular bone; spongy bone
- 稀缺 scarce; scarcity
- 稀释(稀釋) to dilute
- 古稀 seventy years old
- 稀粥 water gruel; thin porridge
- 稀罕 rare; uncommon; rarity; to value as a rarity; to cherish
- 渐稀(漸稀) to thin out gradually; to become fainter and fainter
- 依稀 vaguely; dimly; probably; very likely
- 稀饭(稀飯) porridge; gruel
- 和稀泥 to try to smooth things over; to paper over the issues; to gloss things over
- 人烟稀少(人煙稀少) no sign of human habitation; desolate
- 稀客 infrequent visitor
- 年逾古稀 over seventy years old
- 稀烂(稀爛) smashed up; broken into pieces; thoroughly mashed; pulpy
- 稀有元素 trace element (nutrition)
- 稀土元素 rare earth element
- 稀土 rare earth
- 稀奇古怪 crazy; bizarre; weird; fantastic; strange
- 稀稀拉拉 sparse and fragmentary
- 稀少 sparse; rare
- 稀有 uncommon
- 稀有气体(稀有氣體) rare gas; noble gas
- 稀薄 thin; rarefied
- 稀世 rare
- 稀巴烂(稀巴爛) broken
- 稀疏 sparse; infrequent; thinly spread
- 稀里糊涂(稀裏糊塗) muddleheaded; careless
- 稀奇 rare; strange
- 地广人稀(地廣人稀) vast, but sparsely populated
- 拉稀 to have diarrhea
- 稀里光当(稀里光當) thin; diluted
- 稀里哗啦(稀裡嘩啦) rustling sound; sound of rain or of something falling down; in disorder; completely smashed; badly battered
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第六十七回 Chapter 67 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 6
- 卷二十九 Scroll 29 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷四十三 朱樂何列傳 Volume 43: Biographies of Zhu, Yue, He Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 3
- 卷一百五十一 志第一百〇四 輿服三 Volume 151 Treatises 104: Carriages and Clothes 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 3
- 第十三回 Chapter 13 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 3
- Smallholders' Homes by the Wei River Selections of Tang Poetry — count: 3
- 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 卷三百三十二 列傳第二百二十 西域四 Volume 332 Biographies 220: Western Regions 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 3
- 卷二十七 Scroll 27 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷二十四 Scroll 24 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
Collocations
- 人稀 (人稀) 土廣人稀 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十六 鄧寇列傳 Volume 16: Biographies of Deng, Kou — count: 21
- 民稀 (民稀) 地廣民稀 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十八下 地理志 Volume 28b: Treatise on Geography 2 — count: 10
- 稀简 (稀簡) 貢御稀簡 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十四上 袁紹劉表列傳 Volume 74a: Biographies of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao 1 — count: 5
- 稀省 (稀省) 稀省聲 — Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字, 《艸部》 Cǎo Radical — count: 5
- 稀见 (稀見) 世所稀見所稀聞也 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十五 谷永杜鄴傳 Volume 85: Gu Yong and Du Ye — count: 4
- 益稀 (益稀) 軍星動角益稀 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷二十六 天文志 Volume 26: Treatise on Astronomy — count: 4
- 稀闻 (稀聞) 世所稀見所稀聞也 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十五 谷永杜鄴傳 Volume 85: Gu Yong and Du Ye — count: 3
- 鼓稀 (鼓稀) 由是枹鼓稀鳴 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十六 趙尹韓張兩王傳 Volume 76: Zhao, Yin, Han, Zhang and two Wangs — count: 3
- 稀鸣 (稀鳴) 由是枹鼓稀鳴 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十六 趙尹韓張兩王傳 Volume 76: Zhao, Yin, Han, Zhang and two Wangs — count: 3
- 星稀 (星稀) 月明星稀 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷二十一 志第十一 樂三 Volume 21 Treatises 11: Music 3 — count: 2