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xián
1. salted
2. salty
3. stingy
4. miserly
HSK 4 Common • Top 9% ✏️ 9 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

Example Sentences (2)

一般晚上睡觉时,身体感觉到什么,人就容易梦到什么内容。记得有一次,我晚饭吃得太咸,那天晚上就梦见自己到处找商店买矿泉水。
Yìbān wǎnshang shuìjiào shí, shēntǐ gǎnjué dào shénme, rén jiù róngyì mèngdào shénme nèiróng. Jìde yǒu yí cì, wǒ wǎnfàn chī de tài xián, nà tiān wǎnshang jiù mèngjiàn zìjǐ dàochù zhǎo shāngdiàn mǎi kuàngquánshuǐ.
In general, when sleeping at night, whatever the body feels, people are likely to dream about it. I remember once, my dinner was too salty, and that night I dreamed of looking everywhere for a store to buy mineral water.
Text 3
湖南菜的特点就是辣,与其他地方的辣不同,湖南菜的辣主要是咸辣、香辣和酸辣。
Húnán cài de tèdiǎn jiùshì là, yǔ qítā dìfāng de là bùtóng, Húnán cài de là zhǔyào shì xiánlà, xiānglà hé suānlà.
The characteristic of Hunan cuisine is spiciness; unlike the spiciness in other places, the spiciness of Hunan cuisine is mainly salty and spicy, fragrant and spicy, and sour and spicy.
Text 5

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
4
Character Frequency Rank
2,524
Word Frequency Rank
7,682 of 84,292