狭 xiá
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 犭 — dog
- Made of
- 犭 dog 夹 to support
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
狭义
xiáyì
narrow sense
Characters in this word
义 yì
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 丿 — falling stroke
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 狭义的数字化转型只是把线下流程搬到线上，并不等于真正创新。 Xiáyì de shùzìhuà zhuǎnxíng zhǐshì bǎ xiànxià liúchéng bān dào xiànshàng, bìng bù děngyú zhēnzhèng chuàngxīn. Digital transformation in the narrow sense merely moves offline procedures online and does not amount to real innovation.
- 从狭义上讲，这本书只研究城市方言。 Cóng xiáyì shàng jiǎng, zhè běn shū zhǐ yánjiū chéngshì fāngyán. In the narrow sense, this book only studies urban dialects.
- 狭义的文化指艺术和思想，广义则涵盖生活方式。 Xiáyì de wénhuà zhǐ yìshù hé sīxiǎng, guǎngyì zé hángài shēnghuó fāngshì. Culture in the narrow sense refers to art and ideas, while broadly it covers ways of life.
Related words
- 狭隘 xiá'ài narrow; narrow-minded
- 狭小 xiáxiǎo narrow and small; cramped
- 狭窄 xiázhǎi narrow; limited
- 意义 yìyì meaning; significance
- 含义 hányì meaning
- 义务 yìwù duty; obligation
- 正义 zhèngyì justice
- 定义 dìngyì definition; to define
- 断章取义 duànzhāngqǔyì to quote out of context; to distort by taking out of context
- 顾名思义 gùmíngsīyì as the name implies; literally, to infer the meaning from the name
- 广义 guǎngyì broad sense; broad meaning
- 见利忘义 jiànlìwàngyì to forget morality at the sight of profit