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肤浅

fūqiǎn

superficial; shallow

A person looks into a shallow puddle beside a deep well
Memory picture

Characters in this word

肤 fū

Strokes
8
Radical
⺼ — meat, flesh
Made of
⺼ meat, flesh 夫 man, husband
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 肤

浅 qiǎn

Strokes
8
Radical
氵 — water
Made of
氵 water 戋 small, narrow
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 如果只把传统节日理解成消费噱头,这种解读未免过于肤浅。 Rúguǒ zhǐ bǎ chuántǒng jiérì lǐjiě chéng xiāofèi xuétou, zhè zhǒng jiědú wèimiǎn guòyú fūqiǎn. If traditional festivals are understood merely as consumer gimmicks, that interpretation is rather too superficial.
  • 他对这个问题的看法太肤浅了,没有想到背后的原因。 Tā duì zhège wèntí de kànfǎ tài fūqiǎn le, méiyǒu xiǎngdào bèihòu de yuányīn. His view of this issue is too superficial; he has not thought of the reasons behind it.
  • 只看外表就下结论,这样的判断很肤浅。 Zhǐ kàn wàibiǎo jiù xià jiélùn, zhèyàng de pànduàn hěn fūqiǎn. Drawing conclusions from appearance alone is a very shallow way of judging.

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