隙 — Chinese character
隙
xì
crack, fissure, split; grudge
- Pinyin
- xì
- Radical
- 170 ⾩ (Mound)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 阝 小 日 小
- Formation
- ideographic — A crack 日 dividing two things 小; 阝 provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 隙 as a kanji
Common words with 隙
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 缝隙 (縫隙) | fèng xì | small crack; chink |
| 空隙 | kòng xì | crack; gap between two objects |
| 间隙 (間隙) | jiàn xì | interval; gap |
| 孔隙 | kǒng xì | pore (geology) |
| 嫌隙 | xián xì | hostility; animosity |
| 裂隙 | liè xì | gap; slit; crack; crevice; fracture |
| 白驹过隙 (白駒過隙) | bái jū guò xì | a white steed flits past a crack (idiom); How time flies! |
| 乘隙 | chéng xì | to seize an opportunity; to exploit (a loophole) |
| 气隙 (氣隙) | qì xì | air vent; air gap |
| 罅隙 | xià xì | gap; crack |
| 隙缝 (隙縫) | xì fèng | aperture |
| 仇隙 | chóu xì | feud; bitter quarrel |
English words written with 隙
隙 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.