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
- 稀有元素 trace element (nutrition)
- 依稀 vaguely; dimly; probably; very likely
- 稀里糊涂(稀裏糊塗) muddleheaded; careless
- 稀松骨质(稀鬆骨質) cancellous bone; trabecular bone; spongy bone
- 稀客 infrequent visitor
- 稀松(稀鬆) poor; sloppy; unconcerned; heedless; lax; unimportant; trivial; loose; porous
- 稀奇古怪 crazy; bizarre; weird; fantastic; strange
- 稀里光当(稀里光當) thin; diluted
- 稀土元素 rare earth element
- 稀饭(稀飯) porridge; gruel
- 稀罕 rare; uncommon; rarity; to value as a rarity; to cherish
- 稀里哗啦(稀裡嘩啦) rustling sound; sound of rain or of something falling down; in disorder; completely smashed; badly battered
- 稀有 uncommon
- 稀巴烂(稀巴爛) broken
- 稀奇 rare; strange
- 年逾古稀 over seventy years old
- 稀土金属(稀土金屬) rare earth element
- 稀稀拉拉 sparse and fragmentary
- 稀烂(稀爛) smashed up; broken into pieces; thoroughly mashed; pulpy
- 物以稀为贵(物以稀為貴) the rarer something is, the greater its value
- 人烟稀少(人煙稀少) no sign of human habitation; desolate
- 和稀泥 to try to smooth things over; to paper over the issues; to gloss things over
- 稀少 sparse; rare
- 稀薄 thin; rarefied
- 拉稀 to have diarrhea
- 渐稀(漸稀) to thin out gradually; to become fainter and fainter
- 稀粥 water gruel; thin porridge
- 稀缺 scarce; scarcity
- 稀释(稀釋) to dilute
- 稀有气体(稀有氣體) rare gas; noble gas
- 珍稀 rare; precious and uncommon
- 稀土 rare earth
- 稀疏 sparse; infrequent; thinly spread
- 古稀 seventy years old
- 稀世 rare
- 地广人稀(地廣人稀) vast, but sparsely populated
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
- 第十三回 Chapter 13 Journey to the West 西遊記 — 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
- 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
- 卷二十五 Scroll 25 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- Smallholders' Homes by the Wei River Selections of Tang Poetry — count: 3
- 卷十下 皇后紀 Volume 10b: Annals of Empresses 2 Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 2
- 卷四百二十六 列傳第一百八十五 循吏 陳靖 張綸 邵曄 崔立 魯有開 張逸 吳遵路 趙尚寬 高賦 程師孟 韓晉卿 葉康直 宋慈 Volume 426 Biographies 185: Xun Li, Chen Jing, Zhang Lun, Shao Ye, Cui Li, Lu Youkai, Zhang Yi, Wu Zunlu, Zhao Shangkuan, Gao Fu, Cheng Shimeng, Han Jinqing, Ye Kangzhi, Song Ci History of Song 宋史 — 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
- 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
- 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
- 减稀 (減稀) 減稀製之 — History of Song 宋史, 卷一百五十一 志第一百〇四 輿服三 Volume 151 Treatises 104: Carriages and Clothes 3 — count: 2