惜 xī

1. xī verb to pity; to regret
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 可惜 (CCD '惜' 2; ; Guoyu '惜' 2; Kroll 2015 '惜' 2, p. 484; Unihan '惜')
2. xī verb to preserve
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '惜' 1a, p. 484)
3. xī verb to reject
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '惜' 3, p. 484)
4. xī verb to treasure; to value; to cherish
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 爱惜 (CCD '惜' 2; Guoyu '惜' 1; Kroll 2015 '惜' 1, p. 484)
5. xī verb to begrudge; to gudge
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD '惜' 3; Kroll 2015 '惜' 1b, p. 484; Unihan '惜')

Contained in

• 惜福 treasure and good fortune
• 食之无味，弃之可惜(食之無味，棄之可惜) to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it
• 惜别(惜別) reluctant to part
• 爱惜皮肉(愛惜皮肉) to love indulgence
• 怜惜(憐惜) to pity; to sympathize with
• 体惜(體惜) to empathize; to understand and sympathize
• 岂不惜哉(豈不惜哉) is it not a shame?
• 惋惜 to regret; to be sorry
• 珍惜 to treasure; to value; to cherish
• 悯惜(憫惜) to feel compassion for
• 惺惺惜惺惺 people of talent appreciate one another; to sympathize with one another
• 顾惜(顧惜) to take loving care of; to value
• 不惜 to not spare; to not hesitate; to not scruple ; disregard; not take into account
• 休惜 recess
• 爱惜性命(愛惜性命) cling to life
• 吝惜 to stint; to be miserly
• 不惜血本 to spare no effort; to devote all one's energies
• 痛惜 to lament
• 怜香惜玉(憐香惜玉) to have tender, protective feelings for the fairer sex
• 爱惜(愛惜) to cherish; to treasure; to use sparingly
• 可惜 it is a pity ; should be treasured
• 惜墨如金 to treasure writing like gold
• 叹惜(嘆惜) sigh of regret
• 哀惜 to sympathize with
• 惜寸阴(惜寸陰) to cherish every moment; to make good use of one's time
• 爱惜光阴(愛惜光陰) care for time
• 疼惜 to cherish; to dote on
• 不惜一战(不惜一戰) to be ready to go to war

Also contained in

贾惜春

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 47
• 第二回 Chapter 112 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 21
• 第二回 Chapter 74 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 20
• 第二回 Chapter 87 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 19
• 第二回 Chapter 115 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 17
• 第二回 Chapter 111 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 16
• 第二十回 Chapter 20 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 13
• 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
• 第二回 Chapter 50 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 8
• 第二回 Chapter 88 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 8

Collocations

• 陛下惜 (陛下惜) 竊爲陛下惜之 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — count: 9
• 悼惜 (悼惜) 帝悼惜之 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十六 伏侯宋蔡馮趙牟韋列傳 Volume 26: Biographies of Fu, Hou, Song, Cai, Feng, Zhao, Mou, Wei — count: 6
• 愍惜 (愍惜) 朝廷愍惜焉 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷一百上 敍傳 Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 — count: 5
• 伤惜 (傷惜) 帝深傷惜之 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十六 伏侯宋蔡馮趙牟韋列傳 Volume 26: Biographies of Fu, Hou, Song, Cai, Feng, Zhao, Mou, Wei — count: 4
• 歎惜 (歎惜) 誠可歎惜 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十五 袁張韓周列傳 Volume 45: Biographies of Yuan, Zhang, Han, Zhou — count: 4
• 惜身 (惜身) 非惜身之埳軻兮 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十八下 馮衍傳 Volume 28b: Biography of Feng Yan — count: 3
• 闵惜 (閔惜) 上閔惜之 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六十四下 嚴朱吾丘主父徐嚴終王賈傳 Volume 64b: an, Zhu, Wuqiu, Zhufu, Xu, Yan, Zhong, Wang and Jia 2 — count: 3
• 朝廷惜 (朝廷惜) 臣竊為朝廷惜此三人 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十六 何武王嘉師丹傳 Volume 86: He Wu, Wang Jia and Shi Dan — count: 3
• 不足惜 (不足惜) 其君亦不足惜也 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷一 君道 Chapter 1: The Way of the Ruler — count: 3
• 国家惜 (國家惜) 是時亦為國家惜之耳 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷三十六 蜀書六 關張馬黃趙傳 Volume 36: Book of Shu 6 - Biographies of Guan, Zhang, Ma, Huang, and Zhao — count: 2