Chinese symbol for “perceptive”
省事
xǐng shì
perceptive; understanding; (archaic) to handle administrative work
The closest CC-CEDICT match for perceptive is 省事 (xǐng shì), defined as: perceptive; understanding; (archaic) to handle administrative work.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “perceptive”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 机警 (機警) | jī jǐng | perceptive; astute |
| 锐利 (銳利) | ruì lì | sharp; keen |
| 乖觉 (乖覺) | guāi jué | perceptive; alert |
| 锐敏 (銳敏) | ruì mǐn | acute; astute |
| 耳聪目明 (耳聰目明) | ěr cōng mù míng | sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom); keen and alert |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 省事.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 全省 | quán shěng | the whole province |
| 省份 | shěng fèn | province |
| 省级 (省級) | shěng jí | (administrative) province-level |
| 节省 (節省) | jié shěng | saving; to save |
| 省委 | shěng wěi | provincial Party committee |
| 省长 (省長) | shěng zhǎng | governor of a province |
| 事件 | shì jiàn | incident; event |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business; measure word: 件 (jiàn), 桩 (zhuāng) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “perceptive”.
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.