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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
xī | xi1
English translation
rhinoceros; sharp, tempered

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Niú

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

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An ox  Niú with a tail  wěi

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

尾牛

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犀牛 xī niú jiǎ : zǒu , xiǎng 冻死 dòng sǐ jiù ràng , Bié lán zhāo .

Rhinoceros: Dome on . If he wants to freeze to death, let him.

犀牛 xī niú jiǎ : zǒu , xiǎng 冻死 dòng sǐ jiù ràng ,别拦 zhù .

Rhinoceros: Come on. If he wants to freeze to death, let him.

犀牛 xī niú zài 这些 zhè xiē 村民 cūn mín de 庄稼 zhuāngjia 地里 chī bǎo le .

The rhinos had fed during the night in the rice fields of these villagers.

shì 伦敦 Lún dūn 著名 zhùmíng de 薄荷 bò he 犀牛 xī niú 夜总会 yè zǒng huì de 钢管舞 gāng guǎn wǔ 舞者 wǔ zhě

She is a pole dancer at London's famous Spearmint Rhino club.

卡拉 Kǎ lā 瑟斯 bèi 犀牛 xī niú 顶伤 le

Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
犀利 xī lì sharp犀利 xī lì
犀牛 xī niú rhinoceros犀牛 xī niú
sharp
灵犀 líng xī fig. mutual sensitivity靈犀
心有灵犀一点通 xīn yǒu líng xī yī diǎn tōng hearts linked as one, just as the proverbial rhinoceros communicates emotion telepathically through his single horn (idiom); fig. two hearts beat as one心有靈犀一點通
犀鸟 xī niǎo hornbill犀鳥

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