惜 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

xī HSK5

pity

惜 xī

to begrudge verb: (bound form) to be stingy with; to begrudge or spare, as in 不惜 bùxī or 吝惜 lìnxī

to pity adjectiveverb: (bound form) to pity; to feel sorry for someone or something, as in 可惜 kěxī or 痛惜 tòngxī

to cherish verb: (bound form) to cherish; to value highly; to take care of tenderly, as in 珍惜 zhēnxī or 爱惜 àixī

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

Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)