Chinese symbol for “pastime”
消遣
xiāo qiǎn
to while the time away; amusement; pastime; recreation
The closest CC-CEDICT match for pastime is 消遣 (xiāo qiǎn), defined as: to while the time away; amusement; pastime; recreation; to make sport of.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 消遣.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 消息 | xiāo xi | (piece of) news; information; message |
| 取消 | qǔ xiāo | to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind |
| 消费 (消費) | xiāo fèi | to consume (goods and services, resources etc) |
| 消失 | xiāo shī | to disappear; to fade away |
| 消费者 (消費者) | xiāo fèi zhě | consumer |
| 消灭 (消滅) | xiāo miè | to put an end to; to annihilate |
| 派遣 | pài qiǎn | to send (on a mission); to dispatch |
| 遣返 | qiǎn fǎn | to repatriate (e.g. prisoners of war); to send back |
See also: Japanese symbol for “pastime”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.