隙
xì HSK7

crack

隙 xì
crack noun
a small physical opening, gap, or crevice

阳光从门隙中射进来。

yáng​guāng cóng mén xì zhōng shè jìn​lái.

Sunlight shines through the crack in the door.

interval noun
a gap in time or a period of leisure

他利用工作之隙学习外语。

tā lì​yòng gōng​zuò zhī xì xué​xí wài​yǔ.

He uses spare moments at work to study foreign languages.

loophole noun
an exploitable opening or weak point

这套方案严丝合缝，无隙可寻。

zhè tào fāng'àn yán​sī​hé​fèng, wú xì kě xún.

This plan is seamless and leaves no room for criticism.

rift noun
an interpersonal grudge or discord

两人因小事而生了隙。

liǎng rén yīn xiǎo shì ér shēng le xì.

The two of them had a falling out over a trivial matter.

Cross-References

Has variant

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,419th most common 21.3 per million
Movie subtitles
2,980th most common 3.59 per million appears in 2% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.860 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
3.82 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+9699

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