惜
xī HSK5

pity

惜 xī
cherish verb
to value, treasure, or take care of something

他一向惜才，为国家培养并提拔了许多年轻学者。

tā yī​xiàng xī cái, wèi guó​jiā péi​yǎng bìng tí​bá le xǔ​duō nián​qīng xué​zhě.

He has always cherished talent and has trained and promoted many young scholars for the country.

begrudge verb
to be stingy with or reluctant to use or part with

他干活从来不惜力。

tā gàn​huó cóng​lái bù xī lì.

He never spares any effort in his work.

pity verb
to feel sorry for or to regret a situation

这件衣服还没穿过就弄丢了，真是太可惜了。

zhè jiàn yī​fu hái méi chuān​guò jiù nòng​diū le, zhēn shì tài kě xī le.

It's such a pity that this piece of clothing was lost before it was even worn once.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,512th most common 70.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,395th most common 50.9 per million appears in 28% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.46 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
9.93 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+60DC

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)