吝惜

Chinese

		stingy	pity; regret; rue pity; regret; rue; begrudge
simp. and trad. (吝惜)		吝	惜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lìnxī, lìnxí

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˋ ㄒㄧ, ㄌㄧㄣˋ ㄒㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leon⁶ sik¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): līn-sioh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìnxī
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìnsi
    • Wade–Giles: lin⁴-hsi¹
    • Yale: lìn-syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linnshi
    • Palladius: линьси (linʹsi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin⁵¹ ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lìnxí
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˋ ㄒㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lìnsí
    • Wade–Giles: lin⁴-hsi²
    • Yale: lìn-syí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: linnshyi
    • Palladius: линьси (linʹsi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin⁵¹ ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leon⁶ sik¹
    • Yale: leuhn sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loen⁶ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: lên⁶ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵn²² sɪk̚⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 吝嗇 / 吝啬 吝惜

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: līn-sioh
    • Tâi-lô: līn-sioh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lixnsioiq
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lin²²⁻²¹ sioʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lin⁴¹⁻²² sioʔ⁵/

Verb

吝惜

1. to begrudge; to stint; to be miserly

Synonyms

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• 不捨得 / 不舍得 (bùshěde)
• 勿捨得 / 勿舍得 (⁸veq ¹so-teq) (Wu)
• 唔捨得 / 唔舍得 (m⁴ se² dak¹) (Cantonese, colloquial)
• 心疼 (xīnténg)
• 捨不得 / 舍不得
• 捨勿得 / 舍勿得 (⁵so-veq-teq) (Wu)
• 𣍐出 / 𫧃出 (Puxian Min)
• 𣍐出得 / 𫧃出得 (Puxian Min, Hokkien)
• 𣍐省得 / 𫧃省得 (mài-sǎng-dă̤) (Northern Min)
• 毋甘 (Hokkien, Teochew)
• 肉痛 (ròutòng) (regional)
• 肉赤 (juk⁶ cek³) (Cantonese)