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Meaning of 靡

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Polyphone (多音字)
Total strokes: 19; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (wrong) conveys the meaning.
Character Formation:
  • Surround from upper left
    • [ ] hemp, flax, sesame; numb
    • [ fēi ] not, negative, non-; to oppose
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Pinyin:
English Definition:to waste (money)
Chinese Definition:
①浪费,奢侈:靡荡。靡费。侈靡。
②分散:靡散(消灭)。
③古同“糜”,糜烂。

Example Words:
奢靡 shē extravagant
侈靡 chǐ wasteful; extravagant
靡费 fèi to waste; to squander
颓靡 tuí devastated
旗靡辙乱 zhé luàn total defeat (idiom)
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2
Pinyin:
English Definition:extravagant; go with fashion; not
Example Words:
风靡 fēng fashionable; popular
披靡 to be swept by the wind; to be blown about by the wind; to be routed (in battle etc)
所向披靡 suǒ xiàng to sweep everything before one; to be invincible (idiom)
萎靡 wěi dispirited; depressed
风靡一时 fēng shí fashionable for a while (idiom); all the rage
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Example Sentences
1
So late into the night.
2
To understand with compassion, opening up my mind.
3
Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
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She had all the test data. And those tests had been designed to tell everything about a person.