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少见

shǎo jiàn

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 少見

少见 (shǎo jiàn) means "rare; seldom seen; (formal) it's a rare pleasure to see you". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 少见 means

1. rare; seldom seen
2. (formal) it's a rare pleasure to see you

The characters in 少见

• 少shǎofew; less; to lack
• 见jiànto see; to meet; to appear (to be sth)

Example sentences

• 我很少见到他。
  Seldom do I see him.
• 最近很少见到我爸。
  I see little of my father these days.
• 她有一个少见的名字。
  She has a rare given name.

Words starting with 少见

• 少见多怪shǎo jiàn duō guài(lit.) a person who has seen little of the world will be astonished by certain things…

Sounds the same

Read shǎo jiàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 少间soon; a short while; a narrow gap

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