HSK 4 · Adjectives

仔细 zǐxì “careful” in Chinese

Traditional 仔細

What 仔细 means

  1. careful
  2. attentive
  3. cautious
  4. to be careful
  5. to look out
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (dialect) thrifty
  • frugal

How to say 仔细

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale仔zǐ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale细xì4th tone, falling

仔细 in a sentence

  1. 仔细回答我的问题。

    Zǐxì huídá wǒ de wèntí.

    Answer my question carefully.

    Sentence #1426459 from Tatoeba

  2. 她仔细考虑了他的提议。

    Tā zǐxì kǎolǜ le tā de tíyì.

    She considered his offer carefully.

    Sentence #8899482 from Tatoeba

  3. 他仔细地查了一遍自己的试卷。

    Tā zǐxì de chá le yí biàn zìjǐ de shìjuàn.

    He carefully checked his exam paper.

    Sentence #1977194 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 仔细 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 仔 (zǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
仔zǐyoung
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 子child · zǐ
The character 细 (xì) with each of its parts in a different colour
细xìthin or slender
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 田field · tiánSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 田 (tián) hints at the sound. Compare it with xì.

How to write 仔细

仔 5 strokes · 细 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

仔细 (zǐxì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 仔细 (zǐxì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 仔细

Words with 仔

牛仔裤niúzǎikù · jeans

Words with 细

详细xiángxì · detailed细节xìjié · details细菌xìjūn · bacteria细致xìzhì · careful细胞xìbāo · cell (biology)精打细算jīngdǎxìsuàn · careful budgeting

More words: Adjectives

正确zhèngquè · correct正式zhèngshì · formal直接zhíjiē · direct (opposite: indirect 间接)准确zhǔnquè · accurate美měi · beautiful强qiáng · strong整zhěng · whole暗àn · dark

FAQs

仔细 (zǐxì) means “careful” or “attentive”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it zǐxì: zǐ with a 3rd tone, then xì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 仔细 is written 仔細. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zixi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 仔细 from the suggestions. Typing zixi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
仔细 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.