儿戏

兒戲

érxì

noun #15,728

Meanings

1 child's play
2 trifling matter

Characters

play; drama; game

Examples

这件事可不是儿戏。

Zhè jiàn shì kěbùshì érxì.

This is no child's play.

你把工作当儿戏了吗？

Nǐ bǎ gōngzuò dāng'ér xì le ma?

Are you treating work as a joke?

Tips

usage

Almost always used in negative contexts to mean 'this is serious, not a game': 不是儿戏, 岂是儿戏, 当成儿戏. Rarely used positively to describe actual child's play.

Stroke Order

儿 ér

戏 xì