xià​qí

to work in the fields in summer

Senses

夏畦 xià​qí (also xià​xī) to work in the fields in summer

(literary) to work hard in the fields during the hot summer; often used as a metaphor for toiling in labor

夏畦 xià​qí (also xià​xī) to flatter

(literary) to fawn over or flatter others; originally from a passage in Mencius comparing the physical strain of forced laughter to the exhaustion of working in summer fields

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