奢
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extravagant
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 大 +9
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 奢
- Common rank
- #2,474
- Unicode
- U+5962
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Formation & memory
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Words with 奢
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 由俭入奢易，由奢入俭难 | (idiom) it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance; the reverse is not so easy | |
| 穷奢极欲 | to indulge in a life of luxury (idiom); extreme extravagance | |
| 奢华 | luxurious; sumptuous; lavish | |
| 奢香 | She Xiang (c. 1361-1396), lady who served as Yi ethnic group leader in Yunnan in early Min… | |
| 奢望 | an extravagant hope; to have excessive expectations | |
| 奢求 | to make extravagant demands; an unreasonable request | |
| 奢泰 | extravagant; sumptuous; wasteful | |
| 奢丽 | sumptuous; a luxury | |
| 戒奢崇俭 | (idiom) to refrain from extravagance and cherish frugality | |
| 穷奢极侈 | extravagant in the extreme (idiom) | |
| 豪奢 | extravagant; luxurious | |
| 奢侈品 | luxury item | |
| 骄奢淫逸 | extravagant and dissipated; decadent | |
| 伍奢 | Wu She (–522 BC), father of Wu Zixu 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1], official of the state of Chu, execut… | |
| 奢靡 | extravagant | |
| 骄奢淫佚 | variant of 驕奢淫逸|骄奢淫逸[jiao1 she1 yin2 yi4] | |
| 奢盼 | an extravagant hope; to have unrealistic expectations | |
| 奢糜 | variant of 奢靡[she1 mi2] | |
| 奢侈 | luxurious; extravagant |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 者 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 者 sound part | that which; they who; those who | |
| 都 | all, each, entirely, whole; metropolis; capital | |
| 猪 | pig, hog, wild boar | |
| 诸 | all, many, various; surname | |
| 著 | to show, to prove, to make known | |
| 署 | bureau, public office; to sign | |
| 赌 | to bet, to gamble, to wager | |
| 绪 | mental state; thread, clue | |
| 屠 | to butcher, to slaughter; massacre | |
| 暑 | hot; heat; summer | |
| 煮 | to boil, to cook | |
| 堵 | wall; to stop, to prevent, to block | |
| 睹 | to look at, to gaze at; to observe | |
| 渚 | islet, sandbar | |
| 箸 | chopsticks | |
| 褚 | bag, valise; to pad, to stuff; surname | |
| 赭 | hematite; ochre, reddish-brown | |
| 啫 | onomatopoeic; an interjection of warning | |
| 楮 | mulberry; paper |