利 lì
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 禾 cereal, grain, rice 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
利索
lìsuo
neat; nimble; efficient
Characters in this word
索 suǒ
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 糸 — silk
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 他的答复非常利索，既没有回避核心问题，也没有堆砌空话。 Tā de dáfù fēicháng lìsuo, jì méiyǒu huíbì héxīn wèntí, yě méiyǒu duīqì kōnghuà. His reply was very crisp: it neither avoided the core issue nor piled up empty phrases.
- 她干活儿很利索，一会儿就把屋子收拾干净了。 Tā gàn huór hěn lìsuo, yíhuìr jiù bǎ wūzi shōushi gānjìng le. She works nimbly and soon had the room tidied.
- 老师傅动作利索，几下就把鱼收拾好了。 Lǎo shīfu dòngzuò lìsuo, jǐ xià jiù bǎ yú shōushi hǎo le. The old cook is deft; in a few moves he had the fish cleaned.