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暇

xiá

Character

What 暇 means

1. leisure

Example sentences

• 我在闲暇时候写诗。
  I write poems in my free time.
• 中国有什幺闲暇吗？
  Is there any leisure in China?
• 她闲暇时间打高尔夫。
  She plays golf in her free time.
• 你要更好地利用闲暇时间。
  Nǐ yào gènghǎo de lìyòng xiánxiá shíjiān.
  You should make better use of your free time.
• 你在闲暇的时候一般做什么？
  Nǐ zài xiánxiá de shíhou yībān zuò shénme?
  What do you usually do in your free time?
• 我常常在我的闲暇时候听广播。
  Wǒ chángcháng zài wǒ de xiánxiá shíhou tīng guǎngbō.
  I often spend my leisure time listening to the radio.

Words containing 暇

• 无暇wú xiátoo busy; to have no time for; fully occupied
• 闲暇xián xiáleisure; free time; unoccupied
• 目不暇接mù bù xiá jiēlit. too much for the eye to take in (idiom); a feast for the eyes
• 应接不暇yìng jiē bù xiámore than one can attend to (idiom); deluged (with inquiries etc)…
• 不暇bù xiáto have no time (for sth); to be too busy (to do sth)
• 空暇kòng xiáidle; free time; leisure
• 好整以暇hào zhěng yǐ xiáto be calm and unruffled in the midst of chaos or at a busy time (idiom)
• 目不暇给mù bù xiá jǐlit. the eye cannot take it all in (idiom); fig. too many good things to see…
• 自顾不暇zì gù bù xiá(idiom) to have one's hands full managing one's own affairs…
• 日无暇晷rì wú xiá guǐno time to spare (idiom)

Characters built on 叚

These share the phonetic component 叚 (), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 假jiǎfake; false; artificial
• 霞xiárose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset
• 瑕xiáblemish; flaw in jade
• 遐xiádistant; long-lasting; to abandon
• 猳jiāmythical ape; variant of 豭
• 葭jiāreed; Phragmites communis
• 煆xiāa raging fire
• 瘕jiǎobstruction in the intestine

Characters that look like 暇

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

• 微wēitiny; miniature; slightly
• 睐làito glance; to look askance at
• 辍chuòto stop (before completion); to cease; to suspend
• 瑕xiáblemish; flaw in jade
• 腋yè(bound form) armpit; axilla; axil
• 猳jiāmythical ape; variant of 豭

Sounds the same

Read xiá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 辖linchpin (used to fasten a wheel to an axle); (bound form) to govern…
• 峡gorge
• 狭narrow; narrow-minded
• 侠knight-errant; brave and chivalrous; hero
• 霞rose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset
• 瑕blemish; flaw in jade
• 匣box
• 遐distant; long-lasting; to abandon
• 黠(phonetic); crafty
• 狎(bound form; literary) to take liberties with sb or sth; to treat frivolously
• 硖place name
• 舺boat; Taiwan pr. jiǎ