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隙

xì

HSK 6 Character

What 隙 means

1. crack
2. crevice
3. gap or interval
4. loophole
5. discord
6. rift

Example sentences

• 请小心月台与车厢之间的空隙。
  Qǐng xiǎoxīn yuètái yǔ chēxiāng zhījiān de kòngxì.
  Please mind the gap between the train and the platform.
• 在伦敦地铁，上车时会有“注意间隙”提醒。
  Zài Lúndūn dìtiě, shàngchē shí huì yǒu “ zhùyì jiànxì ” tíxǐng.
  In the London underground there is a warning to "mind the gap" when boarding the train.
• 在伦敦地铁，上车时会有「注意间隙」提醒。
  In the London underground there is a warning to "mind the gap" when boarding the train.

Words starting with 隙

• 隙缝xì fèngaperture

Words containing 隙

• 空隙kòng xìcrack; gap between two objects; gap in time between two events
• 缝隙fèng xìsmall crack; chink
• 间隙jiàn xìinterval; gap; clearance
• 乘隙chéng xìto seize an opportunity; to exploit (a loophole)
• 仇隙chóu xìfeud; bitter quarrel
• 冰隙bīng xìcrevasse
• 嫌隙xián xìhostility; animosity
• 孔隙kǒng xìpore (geology)
• 气隙qì xìair vent; air gap
• 腔隙qiāng xìlacuna; gap
• 裂隙liè xìgap; slit; crack; crevice; fracture
• 云隙光yún xì guāngcrepuscular rays; sunbeams
• 伺隙sì xìto wait for the opportunity
• 衅隙xìn xìenmity
• 观衅伺隙guān xìn sì xìlit. to look for holes, and observe gaps (idiom); fig. to search out one's opponent's…
• 白驹过隙bái jū guò xìa white steed flits past a crack (idiom); How time flies!
• 罅隙xià xìgap; crack; rift

Characters built on 日

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

• 是shìto be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true…
• 时shío'clock; time; when
• 易yìeasy; amiable; to change
• 智zhì(literary) wise; wisdom
• 旨zhǐimperial decree; purport; aim
• 替tìto substitute for; to take the place of; to replace
• 晰xīclear; distinct
• 曦xī(literary) sunlight (usu. in early morning)

Characters that look like 隙

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

• 隆lónggrand; intense; prosperous
• 腺xiàngland
• 惬qiè(literary) satisfied; content
• 猿yuánape
• 腋yè(bound form) armpit; axilla; axil
• 腈jīngacrylic

Sounds the same

Read xì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 戏trick; drama; play
• 系to connect; to relate to; to tie up
• 细thin or slender; finely particulate; thin and soft
• 潟saline land; salt marsh
• 阋to argue; to quarrel
• 舄shoe; slipper
• 盻to glare at
• 禊semiannual ceremony of purification
• 饩grain ration; sacrificial victim
• 虩terrified
• 匸"cover" or "conceal" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 23)…
• 㣟to go; to walk