狭义

狹義
xiáyì
noun HSK 7-9 #95,388

Meanings

  1. 1 narrow sense
  2. 2 restricted definition

Examples

HSK 6
Xiáyì de wénxué zhǐ bāokuò shīgē, xiǎoshuō hé xìjù.
In the narrow sense, literature covers only poetry, fiction and drama.
HSK 7-9
Zhège cí yǒu guǎngyì hé xiáyì liǎng zhǒng yòngfǎ, lùnwén lǐ yào shuō qīngchu.
The term has a broad use and a narrow one, and a paper has to say which it means.
HSK 7-9
Xiáyì xiāngduìlùn zhǐ tǎolùn yúnsù yùndòng, guǎngyì xiāngduìlùn cái yǐnrù yǐnlì.
Special relativity deals only with uniform motion; general relativity is what brings in gravity.

Tips

usage
Half of a fixed pair with 广义, broad sense. Academic writing opens by fixing scope with the two together, the tight reading of a term first, then what the loose one adds, so meeting one usually means the other is a line away.
mistakes
Nothing to do with 狭窄, physically narrow, and it carries no hint of narrow-minded. It describes how tightly a term is defined, and in 狭义相对论 the settled English is special relativity, not narrow.

Stroke Order

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