私 sī

1. sī adjective private
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '私' 1)
2. sī foreign si
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Foreign Language
   Notes: Used to transliterate foreign names
3. sī adjective personal; individual
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (ABC 'sī' 私 bf 1; Kroll 2015 '私' 1; NCCED '私' 2)
4. sī adjective selfish
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 偏爱 (ABC 'sī' 私 bf 2; GHC '私' 7; Kroll 2015 '私' 2; NCCED '私' 3)
5. sī adjective secret; illegal
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '私' 1a; NCCED '私' 5)
6. sī adverb privately; secretly
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 私下 or 私自 (GHC '私' 9; Kroll 2015 '私' 1a; NCCED '私' 6)
7. sī noun contraband
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHC '私' 6; NCCED '私' 6)
8. sī noun form of address a woman's brothers-in-law
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHC '私' 5; Kroll 2015 '私' 3)
9. sī pronoun myself; I
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A humble self-reference (Kroll 2015 '私' 3a)
10. sī noun genitals
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHC '私' 11; Kroll 2015 '私' 4)
11. sī verb to urinate
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHC '私' 12; Kroll 2015 '私' 5)
12. sī noun ordinary clothing
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (GHC '私' 10; Kroll 2015 '私' 6)
13. sī noun standing grain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 禾 (GHC '私' 1)
14. sī noun a counselor
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 家臣 (GHC '私' 3)
15. sī noun a clan
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 家族 (GHC '私' 4)
16. sī proper noun Si
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (GHC '私' 14)

Contained in

• 私营企业(私營企業) private enterprise
• 济私(濟私) to help one's own interests
• 私酿(私釀) to brew alcoholic drinks illegally
• 私字 name of Kangxi radical 28
• 私办(私辦) privately-run; private enterprise
• 私署 private instructor
• 私房 personal; private; confidential
• 私谋叛国(私謀叛國) to secretly plan treason
• 私生子女 illegitimate child; bastard; love child
• 泄私愤(洩私憤) to vent personal spite; to act out of malice (especially of crime)
• 私营(私營) privately-owned; private
• 正值无私(正值無私) upright and unbiased
• 私底下 privately; secretly; confidentially
• 铜斗家私(銅斗家私) vast family wealth
• 私语(私語) to discuss in whispered tones; whispered conversation
• 自私自利 everything for self and selfish profit; with no regard for others
• 万贯家私(萬貫家私) abundant family wealth
• 私企 private enterprise
• 中饱私囊(中飽私囊) to stuff one's pockets; to take bribes
• 公私 public and private (interests, initiative etc)
• 私募 private placement (investing)
• 私学(私學) private education; private learning
• 徇私舞弊 commit fraud for personal gain; bribery and fraud
• 切切私语(切切私語) a private whisper
• 私怨 personal revenge
• 私塾 private school (in former times)
• 私事 personal matters
• 私怪其故 privately pondered the reason
• 私偏 selfish preference
• 私生活 private life
• 私走 to leave secretly
• 阴私(陰私) shameful secret
• 私下 in private
• 走私品 smuggled product; contraband; pirate product
• 斗私批修(鬥私批修) fight self-interest and repudiate revisionism (Cultural Revolution slogan)
• 私言切语(私言切語) private whispers
• 走私 to smuggle; to have an illicit affair
• 私房钱(私房錢) a secret purse; a secret stash of money
• 公私兼顾(公私兼顧) to adequately take into account both public and private interests
• 私仇 personal grudge
• 结党营私(結黨營私) to gang up for personal interest; to form a clique
• 反走私 to oppose smuggling; anti-contraband (measures, policy etc)
• 损公肥私(損公肥私) to damage the public interest for personal profit; personal profit at public expense
• 家私 family affairs ; family property; family wealth
• 私讯(私訊) private message; to send a private message
• 自私 selfish
• 私馆(私館) a private school
• 私利 personal gain; selfish interest

Also contained in

私信 、 私钥 、 私盐

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 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: 35
• 卷一百八十五 志第一百三十八 食貨下七 Volume 185 Treatises 138: Finance and Economics 2g History of Song 宋史 — count: 27
• 任法第四十五 Chapter 45: Appointment Methods Guanzi 管子 — count: 25
• 昭公 Lord Zhao The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳 — count: 24
• 卷八十 志第五十六 食貨四 Volume 80 Treatises 56: Finance and Economics 4 History of Ming 明史 — count: 23
• 卷一百〇四　志第五十二:　刑法三 Volume 104 Treatises 57: Punishment and Law 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 22
• 卷一百五十七 志第一百一十 選舉三 Volume 157 Treatises 110: Selection and appointment of Officials 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 20
• 卷四十九　志第三十:　食貨四 鹽 酒 醋稅 茶 諸征商 金銀之稅 Volume 49 Treatises 30: Finance and Economics 4 - Tax on Salt, Alcoholic Beverages, and Vinegar; Tax on Tea, Commercial Travel, and Gold and Silver History of Jin 金史 — count: 19
• 明法解第六十七 Chapter 67: Explanation of Wise Edicts Guanzi 管子 — count: 18
• 卷五十四　　　　志第四十四　　食貨四 Volume 54 Treatises 50: Finance and Economics 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 18

Collocations

• 敢私 (敢私) 是以敢私言之 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 6
• 私觌 (私覿) 私覿 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 10. 《鄉黨》 Xiang Dang — count: 6
• 不敢私 (不敢私) 不敢私服 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 5
• 子私 (子私) 武子私問其故 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 宣公 Lord Xuan — count: 4
• 之外私 (之外私) 吾子之外私寡大夫某不祿 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《雜記上》 Miscellaneous Records I — count: 4
• 私丧 (私喪) 士有私喪 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曾子問》 The Questions of Zeng-zi — count: 4
• 使私 (使私) 邾子使私於公子豫 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 隱公 Lord Yin — count: 3
• 蓄私 (蓄私) 雖上世至聖必蓄私 — Mozi 墨子, 卷一 辭過 Book 1 - Indulgence in Excess — count: 3
• 私臣 (私臣) 私臣 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 特牲馈食礼 第十五 15. Rites of the single victim food offering — count: 3
• 私面 (私面) 私面見子皮 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3