泄 — Chinese character
泄
xiè
drip, leak, vent; to disperse; to reduce
- Pinyin
- xiè
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 氵 世
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 世
- Japanese
- 泄 as a kanji
Common words with 泄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 泄露 | xiè lòu | to leak (information); to divulge; also pr. [xie4lu4] |
| 泄漏 (洩漏) | xiè lòu | (of a liquid or gas) to leak; to divulge; to leak (information) |
| 发泄 (發洩) | fā xiè | to give vent to (one's feelings) |
| 外泄 | wài xiè | to leak (usually secret information) |
| 宣泄 (宣洩) | xuān xiè | to drain (by leading off water); to unburden oneself |
| 泄密 (洩密) | xiè mì | to leak secrets |
| 早泄 (早洩) | zǎo xiè | premature ejaculation |
| 排泄 | pái xiè | to drain (factory waste etc); to excrete (urine, sweat etc) |
| 排泄物 | pái xiè wù | excreta; waste matter (feces, urine etc) |
| 泄气 (洩氣) | xiè qì | to leak (gas); to be discouraged |
| 泄愤 (洩憤) | xiè fèn | to give vent to anger |
| 水泄不通 (水洩不通) | shuǐ xiè bù tōng | (lit.) not one drop can trickle through (idiom); (fig.) (of crowds, traffic etc) impenetrable |
English words written with 泄
泄 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 7 · Zhuangzi 4 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Mencius 2B.11
- Mencius 3B.7
- Mencius 4A.1
- Mencius 4B.20
- Zhuangzi Man Among Men
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
- Zhuangzi Lieh Tzŭ
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.
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