司空见惯

司空見慣
sīkōngjiànguàn
idiom HSK 7 #24,612

Meanings

  1. 1 commonplace
  2. 2 nothing out of the ordinary
  3. 3 to be accustomed to seeing

Characters

was an ancient official title. The idiom means something so common that even a high official is used to seeing it.

Examples

Dǔchē zài dà chéngshì yǐjīng sīkōngjiànguàn le.
Traffic jams are already commonplace in big cities.
Zhè zhǒng shìqing duì tā lái shuō zǎo jiù sīkōngjiànguàn le.
This kind of thing is old hat to him.

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history
was a high-ranking official title in ancient China. The idiom originates from a Tang Dynasty story where the poet (Liú Yǔxī) used it to describe a scene so common that even the was used to it.

Stroke Order

kōng
jiàn
guàn