犀
xī

rhinoceros

犀 xī
rhinoceros noun

偷猎者为了获取珍贵的犀角，竟然大肆猎杀受保护动物。

tōu​liè​zhě wèi​le huò​qǔ zhēn​guì de xī jiǎo, jìng​rán dà​sì liè​shā shòu bǎo​hù dòng​wù.

Poachers have been wantonly slaughtering protected animals just to obtain precious rhinoceros horns.

sharp adjective
sharp; keen; trenchant

这位作家的笔锋甚犀，文章读起来很有力量。

zhè wèi zuò​jiā de bǐ​fēng shèn xī, wén​zhāng dú qi​lai hěn yǒu lì​liang.

The writer's style is very sharp, making his articles powerful to read.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,490th most common 5.40 per million
Movie subtitles
2,949th most common 3.74 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.28 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.11 per million

Details
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+7280

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