adjective #22,000

Meanings

  1. 1 leisurely
  2. 2 at ease
  3. 3 to escape
  4. 4 outstanding / surpassing

Examples

Tā guò zhe yī zhǒng xiányì de tiányuán shēnghuó.
He lives a leisurely, pastoral life.
Zhè wèi yǐnshì yì jū shānlín, yuǎn lí chénxiāo.
This hermit lives in peaceful seclusion in the mountains, far from the noise of the world.

Tips

usage
is primarily a classical/literary character. It appears in compounds such as 安逸 (comfortable and carefree), 逃逸 (to flee / escape), and (transcendent). In isolation or in formal writing, it evokes classical elegance and seclusion. Rarely used alone in modern colloquial speech.

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