轻 (輕) qīng
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qīng
adjective
light; not heavy
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: The opposite of 重 (Guoyu '輕' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '輕' 1; NCCED '轻' 1; Unihan '輕') -
qīng
adjective
easy; relaxed; carefree
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '輕' adj 7; Kroll 2015 '輕' 1c; NCCED '轻' 3; Unihan '輕') -
qīng
adjective
simple; convenient
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 方便 or 簡單 (Guoyu '輕' adj 5; Unihan '輕') -
qīng
adjective
small in number or degree
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
Notes: (Guoyu '輕' adj 2; NCCED '轻' 8) -
qīng
adjective
gentle
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '輕' adj 8; NCCED '轻' 9; Unihan '輕') -
qīng
verb
to belittle; to make light of
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 不在乎 (Guoyu '輕' v 1; Kroll 2015 '輕' 2; NCCED '轻' 5) -
qīng
adjective
nimble; agile; portable
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 灵巧 (Guoyu '輕' adj 6; Kroll 2015 '輕' 1a; NCCED '轻' 2) -
qīng
adjective
unimportant
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '輕' 2a; NCCED '轻' 4) -
qīng
adjective
frivolous
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '輕' adj 10; Kroll 2015 '輕' 1b; NCCED '轻' 6) -
qīng
adjective
imprudent
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (NCCED '轻' 7) -
qīng
verb
to smooth
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '輕' 3) -
qīng
verb
to soothe
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '輕' 3a) -
qīng
adjective
lowly
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: The opposite of 卑贱 (Guoyu '輕' adj 4)
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- 轻众而丧师(輕眾而喪師) to belittle the people and mourn the death of soldiers
- 重男轻女(重男輕女) to value males and attach less importance to females
- 轻伤(輕傷) lightly wounded; minor injuries
- 轻车(輕車) a light carriage
- 轻易(輕易) arbitrarily; lightly ; simple; easy ; to look down on; to slight
- 轻柔(輕柔) soft; gentle; pliable
- 轻抚(輕撫) to stroke lightly; to caress
- 重量轻质(重量輕質) to value quantity over quality
- 轻重缓急(輕重緩急) slight or important, urgent or non-urgent; to deal with important matters first; sense of priority
- 轻度(輕度) mild (symptoms etc)
- 轻裘(輕裘) a light fur coat
- 轻水反应堆(輕水反應堆) light water reactor (LWR)
- 轻饶素放(輕饒素放) easily forgive, simply release; to let somebody off scot free
- 重形式轻内容(重形式輕內容) heavy on form, light on substance; to stress form at the expense of content
- 举足轻重(舉足輕重) play a key role; influential
- 轻而易举(輕而易舉) simple and easy to move; with little effort
- 身轻如燕(身輕如燕) as lithe as a swallow (of athlete or beautiful girl)
- 屁轻(屁輕) very light
- 轻工(輕工) light engineering
- 轻忽(輕忽) to look down on and neglect
- 轻车简从(輕車簡從) (of an official) to travel with little luggage and just a small escort
- 年轻气盛(年輕氣盛) full of youthful vigor; in the prime of youth
- 男儿有泪不轻弹(男兒有淚不輕彈) real men do not easily cry
- 轻重主次(輕重主次) to invert the importance of things (i.e. stress the incidental and neglect the main point); lacking a sense of perspective
- 轻机枪(輕機槍) light machine gun
- 年轻力壮(年輕力壯) young and vigorous
- 见轻(見輕) to feel better
- 轻信(輕信) to easily trust; gullible; naïve
- 轻嘴薄舌(輕嘴薄舌) light mouth, thin tongue; hasty and rude; caustic and sharp-tongued
- 轻量级(輕量級) lightweight class
- 訬轻(訬輕) to disturb
- 轻轨(輕軌) light rail; transit system (underground, at street level or elevated); streetcar; metro
- 轻铁(輕鐵) Hong Kong LRT (Light Rail Transit)
- 轻趬(輕趬) agile; nimble
- 轻纱(輕紗) light muslin; gauze
- 千里送鹅毛,礼轻人意重(千里送鵝毛,禮輕人意重) goose feather sent from afar, a slight present but weighty meaning
- 重利轻义(重利輕義) to value material gain over righteousness
- 轻击球(輕擊球) to hit the ball lightly ; putt (golf)
- 轻徭薄赋(輕徭薄賦) to reduce forced labor and levy slight taxes
- 减轻(減輕) to lighten; to ease
- 轻取(輕取) to beat easily; to gain an easy victory
- 轻水反应炉(輕水反應爐) light water reactor (LWR)
- 轻裘肥马(輕裘肥馬) light furs and stout horses; to live in luxury
- 问鼎轻重(問鼎輕重) to inquire whether the tripods are light or heavy; a laughable attempt to seize power
- 轻咬(輕咬) to nibble
- 才轻德薄(才輕德薄) lacking ability and scant virtue
- 轻率(輕率) hasty
- 轻声(輕聲) light stress ; neutral tone; light stress
- 轻看(輕看) to look down upon
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- 卷二百〇一 志第一百五十四 刑法三 Volume 201 Treatises 154: Punishment and Law 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 31
- 卷三十 志第二十 刑法 Volume 30 Treatises 20: Punishment and Law Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 26
- 卷四十八 志第二十九: 食貨三 錢幣 Volume 48 Treatises 29: Finance and Economics 3 - Money History of Jin 金史 — count: 21
- 卷一百八十 志第一百三十三 食貨下二 Volume 180 Treatises 133: Finance and Economics 2b History of Song 宋史 — count: 19
- 卷九十三 志第六十九 刑法一 Volume 93 Treatises 69: Punishment and Law 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 19
- 卷三十四 Scroll 34 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 18
- 山至數第七十六 Chapter 76: Travelling to the Mountains Guanzi 管子 — count: 17
- 卷一百五十七 列傳第八十二 陸贄 Volume 157 Biographies 82: Lu Zhi New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 16
- 卷二十八 韓三 Chapter 28: Han III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 16
- 卷二十二 Scroll 22 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 15
Collocations
- 民轻 (民輕) 信慶賞則民輕難 — Guanzi 管子, 牧民第一 Chapter 1: Shepherding the People — count: 7
- 轻财 (輕財) 此輕財而重禮之義也 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《聘義》 The Meaning of the Interchange of Missions Beteween Different Courts — count: 5
- 令轻 (令輕) 則上令輕 — Guanzi 管子, 八觀第十三 Chapter 13: Eight Observations — count: 3
- 轻死 (輕死) 近刑人則輕死之道也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 3
- 轻诛 (輕誅) 猛毅之君者輕誅 — Guanzi 管子, 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa — count: 3
- 不可以轻 (不可以輕) 國君不可以輕 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2
- 轻民 (輕民) 則輕民處而重民散 — Guanzi 管子, 七法第六 Chapter 6: Seven Methods — count: 2
- 不以轻 (不以輕) 不以輕服而重相為乎 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 2
- 轻丧 (輕喪) 不以輕喪而重祭乎 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 2
- 轻征 (輕徵) 十一仞見水輕征 — Guanzi 管子, 乘馬第五 Chapter 5: A Team of Horses — count: 2