稀松 (xīsōng): sloppy

Meanings

1 sloppy
2 lax
3 poor (quality, performance)
4 trivial
5 unimportant
6 (of soil/material) loose, porous

Characters

稀

Examples

他的功夫稀松得很，根本打不过对方。

Tā de gōngfu xīsōng de hěn, gēnběn dǎ bú guò duìfāng.

His kung fu is really sloppy — no way he can beat his opponent.

这种事稀松平常，没什么大不了的。

Zhè zhǒng shì xīsōng píngcháng, méi shénme dàbuliǎo de.

This kind of thing is utterly commonplace — no big deal.

Tips

usage

Two main flavors: (1) describing a person's skill or work as "weak/sloppy" (often dismissively), and (2) the fixed phrase 稀松平常 = "perfectly ordinary, nothing special". The literal sense — loose, porous (like crumbly soil) — is the source: things that don't hold together tightly.