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仔细

zǐ xì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 仔細

仔细 (zǐ xì) means "careful / attentive". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 仔细 means

1. careful; attentive; cautious
2. to be careful; to look out
3. dialectthrifty; frugal

The characters in 仔细

• 仔zǐ(bound form) (of domestic animals or fowl) young; (bound form) fine; detailed
• 细xìthin or slender; finely particulate; thin and soft

Example sentences

• 仔细看
  Zǐxì kàn
  Look closely.
• 仔细听着。
  Listen carefully.
• 请仔细洗牌。
  Qǐng zǐxì xǐpái.
  Please shuffle the cards carefully.
• 汤姆仔细听。
  Tom listened carefully.
• 听，仔细听。
  Listen and listen carefully.
• 我会仔细考虑。
  I'll think it over carefully.

Sounds the same

Read zǐ xì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 子细variant of 仔细

Where 仔细 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personality & character traits (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zǐ xì correctly.
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