暇 (xiá): leisure
暇 (xiá) is a Chinese character meaning “leisure.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 日 (semantic) and 叚 (phonetic). It ranks #2926 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 暇 sun. Its radical form 日 (sun) appears in many related characters such as 日 (rì, sun, day), 时 (shí, time, hour), 明 (míng, bright, tomorrow).
Definitions
- leisure
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无暇 | wú xiá | too busy |
| 闲暇noun | xián xiá | leisure |
| 应接不暇 | yìng jiē bù xiá | more than one can attend to (idiom) |
| 自顾不暇phrase | zì gù bù xiá | (idiom) to have one's hands full managing one's own affairs |
| 空暇noun | kòng xiá | idle |
| 目不暇给phrase | mù bù xiá jǐ | lit. the eye cannot take it all in (idiom) |
| 好整以暇phrase | hào zhěng yǐ xiá | to be calm and unruffled in the midst of chaos or at a busy time (idiom) |
| 目不暇接 | mù bù xiá jiē | lit. too much for the eye to take in (idiom) |
| 不暇 | bù xiá | to have no time (for sth) |
| 日无暇晷 | rì wú xiá guǐ | no time to spare (idiom) |
暇 appears in 10 compound words: 0 as the first character, 70 as the last, and 30 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Idioms & Chengyu (5)
Showing 4 of 5 idioms containing 暇.
Example Sentences
也有家长买给孩子,想着闲暇时,孩子可以挂一挂、抻一抻。
yě yǒu jiā cháng mǎi gěi hái zǐ , xiǎng zhe xián xiá shí , hái zǐ kě yǐ guà yī guà , 抻 yī 抻 .
Some parents also buy them for their children, thinking that their kids can hang them up and stretch them out in their free time.
虽然时间有些紧,但我几乎每走完一段台阶就会停下来,眼前铺展的景致,美得令人目不暇接。
suī rán shí jiān yǒu xiē jǐn , dàn wǒ jǐ hū měi zǒu wán yī duàn tái jiē jiù huì tíng xià lái , yǎn qián pù zhǎn de jǐng zhì , měi dé lìng rén mù bù xiá jiē .
Although time was a bit tight, I stopped almost every time I reached the top of a flight of stairs—the scenery unfolding before me was so breathtakingly beautiful that I couldn’t take it all in.
在北京工作的樊雨欣,日常身处快节奏的都市生活,闲暇之余,来到了李娟笔下的新疆阿勒泰。
zài běi jīng gōng zuò de 樊 yǔ xīn , rì cháng shēn chǔ kuài jié zòu de dōu shì shēng huó , xián xiá zhī yú , lái dào le lǐ juān bǐ xià de xīn jiāng ā lè tài .
Fan Yuxin, who works in Beijing, leads a fast-paced urban life on a daily basis. In her spare time, she finds herself in the Altay region of Xinjiang as depicted by Li Juan.
每天超快的工作节奏好处是经验积累飞速提升,副作用就是毫无轻松闲暇可言。
měi tiān chāo kuài de gōng zuò jié zòu hǎo chǔ shì jīng yàn jī lèi fēi sù tí shēng , fù zuò yòng jiù shì háo wú qīng sōng xián xiá kě yán .
The upside of such a fast-paced work schedule every day is that you gain experience at an incredible rate; the downside is that there’s absolutely no time to relax or take it easy.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 日 (sun) component
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