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隙

xì
noun #22,645

Meanings

  1. 1 crack
  2. 2 crevice
  3. 3 gap
  4. 4 rift
  5. 5 loophole
  6. 6 discord

Examples

阳光透过墙壁的隙缝照进来。
Yángguāng tòuguò qiángbì de xìfèng zhào jìnlái.
Sunlight shone in through the cracks in the wall.
他们之间产生了嫌隙，关系日渐疏远。
Tāmen zhījiān chǎnshēng le xiánxì, guānxi rìjiàn shūyuǎn.
A rift developed between them and their relationship grew increasingly distant.
敌军趁隙进攻，打了我们一个措手不及。
Díjūn chèn xì jìngōng, dǎ le wǒmen yī gè cuòshǒu bùjí.
The enemy seized the gap to attack, catching us completely off guard.

Tips

register
隙 is a classical/literary character. In modern speech it usually appears in compounds: 间隙 (gap/interval), 空隙 (gap/opening), 嫌隙 (rift/grudge), 裂隙 (fissure). Rarely used alone in modern colloquial speech.
memory
Picture the radical 阝(hill/mound) with 小 (small) — a small gap in the hillside.

Stroke Order

隙 xì