私
sī HSK5

private

私 sī
secretly verb
without authorization or knowledge of others; privately; secretly.

他竟敢私自拿走公司的重要文件，真是太胆大了。

tā jìng gǎn sī zì ná​zǒu gōng​sī de zhòng​yào wén​jiàn, zhēn shì tài dǎn​dà le.

He was so bold as to take important company documents without permission.

private noun
relating to an individual's personal affairs rather than public or official matters

他这次出国是为了处理一些私事。

tā zhè cì chū​guó shì wèi le chǔ​lǐ yī​xiē sī​shì.

He went abroad this time to handle some personal matters.

selfish noun
motivated by one's own interests or seeking personal gain

他一心只顾私利，不顾集体利益。

tā yī​xīn zhǐ gù sī lì, bù gù jí​tǐ lì​yì.

He cares only about his own interests, ignoring the interests of the collective.

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,023rd most common 153.5 per million
Movie subtitles
807th most common 154.8 per million appears in 54% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
16.8 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
45.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+79C1

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