薪 xīn
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xīn
noun
fuel; firewood
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 柴火 (CC-CEDICT '薪'; Guoyu '薪' 1; Unihan '薪') -
xīn
noun
salary
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 年薪 annual salary (CC-CEDICT '薪'; Guoyu '薪' 2; Unihan '薪')
Contained in
- 加薪 to raise salary
- 薪资(薪資) salary; wages
- 底薪 basic salary; base pay; salary floor
- 薪樵 firewood
- 薪给(薪給) salary; wage
- 卧薪尝胆(臥薪嘗膽) lie on firewood and taste gall; to harden oneself for revenge
- 工薪族 salaried class
- 欠薪 to owe wages; back pay; wages arrears
- 秤薪而爨 to weight the firewood and then do the cooking; extremely frugal
- 薪俸 salary; pay
- 年薪 annual salary
- 救焚益薪 add firewood to put out the flames; ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse
- 拯溺钟石救火投薪(拯溺鍾石救火投薪) to save somebody from drowning with a heavy stone or to put out a fire by throwing on logs
- 薪火相传(薪火相傳) the flame of a burning piece of firewood passes on to the rest
- 发薪日(發薪日) payday
- 高薪养廉(高薪養廉) policy of high pay to discourage corruption
- 带薪休假(帶薪休假) paid leave
- 薪传(薪傳) to be passed on from teachers to students, one generation to another
- 日薪 daily wage
- 釜底抽薪 to take drastic measures to deal with a situation; to pull the carpet from under sb
- 停薪留职(停薪留職) leave of absence without pay
- 高薪厚禄(高薪厚祿) high salary, generous remuneration
- 工薪阶层(工薪階層) salaried class
- 薪金 salary
- 杯水车薪(杯水車薪) an utterly inadequate measure
- 曲突徙薪 to bend the chimney and remove the firewood (to prevent fire); to take preventive measures
- 薪火 a lamp
- 高薪酬 high salary
- 月薪 monthly income
- 薪水 salary
- 高薪聘请(高薪聘請) to hire at a high salary
- 厝火积薪(厝火積薪) to put a fire under a pile of firewood; hidden danger; imminent danger
- 柴薪 firewood
- 周薪(週薪) weekly salary
- 发薪(發薪) to pay wages or salary
- 留职停薪(留職停薪) leave of absence without pay
- 薪酬 remuneration; salary
- 负薪(負薪) to carry firewood
- 樵薪 gather firewood
- 带薪(帶薪) to receive one's regular salary (while on vacation, study leave etc); paid (leave); on full pay
- 高薪 a high salary
- 提薪 to receive a raise in salary
- 抱薪救火 to carry firewood to put out a fire; fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action
- 积薪厝火(積薪厝火) to add fuel to the flames
- 减薪(減薪) to cut wages
- 救火投薪 to put out a fire by throwing on logs; to do something that makes a bad situation worse
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十五 志第八 天文八 Volume 55 Treatises 8: Astronomy 8 History of Song 宋史 — count: 11
- 卷七十二 志第四十八 職官一 Volume 72 Treatises 48: Official Posts 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 7
- 卷一百七十一 志第一百二十四 職官十一 Volume 171 Treatises 124: Offical Posts 11 History of Song 宋史 — count: 7
- 卷二十六 志第二 天文二 Volume 26 Treatises 2: Astronomy 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 7
- 卷三十一 Scroll 31 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷一百六十二 列傳第四十九: 李忽蘭吉 李庭 史弼 高興 劉國傑 Volume 162 Biographies 49: Li Hulanji, Li Ting, Shi Bi, Gao Xing, Liu Guojie History of Yuan 元史 — count: 6
- 卷七十四 志第五十 職官三 Volume 74 Treatises 50: Official Posts 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 5
- 卷十四 備城門 Book 14 - Fortification of the City Gate Mozi 墨子 — count: 5
- 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare Rites of Zhou 周禮 — count: 5
- 輕重甲第八十 Chapter 80: Weight I Guanzi 管子 — count: 5
Collocations
- 积薪 (積薪) 共其委積薪芻凡疏材 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 24
- 鬼薪 (鬼薪) 輕者為鬼薪 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 10
- 束薪 (束薪) 不流束薪 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧王‧揚之水 Lessons from the states - Odes of Wang - Yang Zhi Shui — count: 8
- 薪蒸 (薪蒸) 藪之薪蒸 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 8
- 薪刍 (薪芻) 薪刍倍禾 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 聘禮 第八 8. Rites of courtesy calls — count: 7
- 抱薪 (抱薪) 是猶抱薪而救火 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷六 覽冥訓 Chapter 6: Observing the Obscure — count: 6
- 薪菜 (薪菜) 而飲食薪菜饒 — Guanzi 管子, 五輔第十 Chapter 10: Wu Fu — count: 6
- 析薪 (析薪) 析薪如之何 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧齊‧南山 Lessons from the states - Odes of Qi - Nan Shan — count: 5
- 伐薪 (伐薪) 乃伐薪為炭 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 5
- 采薪 (采薪) 有采薪之憂 — Mencius 孟子, 公孫丑下 Gong Sun Chou II — count: 5