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斜

xié

HSK 5 Character

What 斜 means

1. inclined
2. slanting
3. oblique
4. tilting

Example sentences

• 塔有点向西边倾斜。
  Tǎ yǒudiǎn xiàng xībiān qīngxié.
  The tower leaned slightly to the west.
• 有一家便利店在马路斜对面。
  Yǒu yījiā biànlìdiàn zài mǎlù xiéduì miàn.
  There's a convenience store diagonally across the street.
• 这条小路沿着陡峭的斜坡蜿蜒而上。
  Zhè tiáo xiǎolù yánzhe dǒuqiào de xiépō wānyán ér shàng.
  The path zigzagged up the steep slope.
• 在比萨斜塔的塔阴下，坐着这城市的童话讲述家，他正在吃一碟豌豆汤。 之后他将给小孩子们讲述童话“豌豆上的公主”。
  Zài Bǐsà Xiétǎ de tǎ yīn xià, zuò zhe zhè chéngshì de tónghuà jiǎngshù jiā, tā zhèngzài chī yī dié wāndòu tāng. zhīhòu tā jiāng gěi xiǎoháizi men jiǎngshù tónghuà "wāndòu shàng de gōngzhǔ ".
  In the shadow of the Leaning Tower of Pisa sits the town storyteller, eating a bowl of pea soup. After that he tells some children the fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea".

Words starting with 斜

• 斜坡xié pōslope; incline
• 斜阳xié yángsetting sun
• 斜眼xié yǎnto look askance; cross or wall-eyed
• 斜靠xié kàoto recline
• 斜视xié shìa squint; sideways glance; to look askance
• 斜睨xié nìto cast sidelong glances at sb
• 斜交xié jiāobevel; oblique
• 斜塔xié tǎleaning tower
• 斜对xié duìcatty-corner; to be diagonally opposite to
• 斜度xié dùslope; gradient; inclination
• 斜径xié jìngsloping path
• 斜率xié lǜslope
• 斜纹xié wén(textiles) twill
• 斜线xié xiànoblique line; slash (symbol)
• 斜肌xié jīdiagonal muscle
• 斜角xié jiǎobevel angle; oblique angle
• 斜躺xié tǎngto recline
• 斜轴xié zhóuoblique axes (math.)
• 斜边xié biānsloping side; (geometry) hypotenuse
• 斜面xié miàninclined plane
• 斜体xié tǐitalics; slanting typeface
• 斜射球xié shè qiúa sliced ball (tennis or table tennis)
• 斜投影xié tóu yǐngoblique projection
• 斜方型xié fāng xíngtrapezium (geometry)

Words containing 斜

• 倾斜qīng xiéto incline; to lean; to slant
• 歪歪斜斜wāi wāi xié xiéshuddering; trembling; a trembling scrawl (of handwriting)
• 歪斜wāi xiécrooked; askew; oblique
• 目不斜视mù bù xié shìnot to glance sideways (idiom); to gaze fixedly; to be fully concentrated
• 偏斜piān xiécrooked; not upright; diverging from straight line
• 向斜xiàng xiésyncline (geology)
• 横斜héng xiéoblique; slanting
• 背斜bèi xiéanticline (geology)
• 逆斜nì xié(geology) anaclinal
• 顺斜shùn xié(geology) cataclinal
• 不偏斜bù piān xiénot leaning to one side; impartial; even-handed
• 倾斜度qīng xié dùinclination (from the horizontal or vertical); slope; obliquity
• 内斜视nèi xié shì(medicine) esotropia; cross-eye
• 反斜线fǎn xié xiànbackslash (computing); reversed diagonal
• 外斜肌wài xié jīexternal oblique muscle (sides of the chest)
• 比萨斜塔Bǐ sà Xié tǎLeaning Tower of Pisa
• 横斜钩héng xié gōu⺄ stroke in Chinese characters
• 口眼歪斜kǒu yǎn wāi xiéfacial nerve paralysis
• 反斜杠fǎn xié gàngbackslash (computing)
• 哩溜歪斜lī liū wāi xiécrooked; deformed; twisted
• 乜斜miē xieto squint
• 身正不怕影子斜shēn zhèng bù pà yǐng zi xié(lit.) when a man stands straight, he doesn't worry that his shadow is slanting (saying)…

Characters that look like 斜

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 料liàomaterial; stuff; grain
• 耕gēngto plow; to till
• 酥sūflaky pastry; crunchy; limp
• 梆bāngwatchman's rattle
• 剜wānto scoop out; to gouge out
• 蚪dǒuused in 蝌蚪

Sounds the same

Read xié, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鞋shoe
• 胁flank (the side of one's torso); to coerce; to threaten
• 协to cooperate; to harmonize; to help
• 携to carry; to take along; to bring along
• 谐(bound form) harmonious; (bound form) humorous; (literary) to reach agreement
• 邪demonic; iniquitous; nefarious
• 挟(bound form) to clasp under the arm; (bound form) to coerce…
• 偕in company with
• 叶to be in harmony
• 页head
• 颉(of a bird) to fly upwards; (of the neck) stiff
• 撷to collect; Taiwan pr. jié