新
xīn
new
No. 80 most used
How it's built
- 立stand
- 木tree
- 斤axe
A way to remember it
Stand (立) by a tree (木) with an axe (斤): freshly cut wood is new.
Top 100 · accounts for 52% of everyday spoken Chinese · 0 of 100 known
Words
- 重新chóng xīnagain; once more; re-
- 新闻xīn wénnews; CL:条
- 最新zuì xīnlatest; newest
- 新娘xīn niángbride
- 新鲜xīn xiānfresh (experience, food etc); freshness; novel
Sentences
- 我想要一部新手机！wǒ xiǎng yào yí bù xīn shǒu jīI want a new cellphone!
- 我有了一个新主意。wǒ yǒu le yí ge xīn zhǔ yiA new idea came to me.
- 这是一家新电影院。zhè shì yì jiā xīn diàn yǐng yuànThis is a new cinema.
- 他提出了一种新理论。tā tí chū le yì zhǒng xīn lǐ lùnHe put forward a new theory.
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How often characters are written: wordfreq by Robyn Speer, CC BY-SA 4.0, with data from Google Books Ngrams and SUBTLEX by Marc Brysbaert and others. Meanings: CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0. Sentences: Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. How often they're said: FrequencyWords and OPUS, from OpenSubtitles.