隙
crack; crevice; gap or interval; loophole; discord; rift
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Dict coverage rank #2,521 U+9699
How 隙 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A crack 日 dividing two things 小; 阝 provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
rift · Heisig RSH #2339
pinnacle + 小 small + 泉 spring
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words containing 隙
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 云隙光 | yún xì guāng | crepuscular rays; sunbeams |
| 气隙 | qì xì | air vent; air gap |
| 空隙 | kòng xì | crack; gap between two objects; gap in time between two events |
| 间隙 | jiàn xì | interval; gap; clearance |
| 冰隙 | bīng xì | crevasse |
| 白驹过隙 | bái jū guò xì | a white steed flits past a crack (idiom); How time flies! |
| 孔隙 | kǒng xì | pore (geology) |
| 裂隙 | liè xì | gap; slit; crack; crevice; fracture |
| 乘隙 | chéng xì | to seize an opportunity; to exploit (a loophole) |
| 缝隙 | fèng xì | small crack; chink |
| 隙缝 | xì fèng | aperture |
| 仇隙 | chóu xì | feud; bitter quarrel |
| 腔隙 | qiāng xì | lacuna; gap |
| 嫌隙 | xián xì | hostility; animosity |
| 观衅伺隙 | guān xìn sì xì | lit. to look for holes, and observe gaps (idiom); fig. to search out one's opponent's weak… |
| 伺隙 | sì xì | to wait for the opportunity |
| 衅隙 | xìn xì | enmity |
| 罅隙 | xià xì | gap; crack; rift |