HSK 6 · Nature

溪 xī “stream” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 溪 means

  1. stream
  2. creek
  3. rivulet

How to say 溪

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale溪xī1st tone, high and level

溪 in a sentence

  1. 他家后面有小溪，清可见底。

    Tā jiā hòumiàn yǒu xiǎoxī, qīng kě jiàn dǐ.

    Behind his house there’s a stream so clear you can see the bottom.

    Sentence #1759602 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 溪流潺潺，催我入眠。

    Xīliú chánchán, cuī wǒ rùmián.

    The babbling of the brook lulls me to sleep.

    Sentence #2221100 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 溪水流进这个池塘里。

    Xīshuǐ liújìn zhè ge chítáng lǐ.

    The stream flows into the pond.

    Sentence #868280 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 溪 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 溪 (xī) with each of its parts in a different colour
溪xīcreek
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 奚where · xīSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 奚 (xī) hints at the sound. Compare it with xī.

How to write 溪

溪 13 strokes

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

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FAQs

溪 (xī) means “stream” or “creek”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it xī: xī with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 溪 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 溪 from the suggestions. Typing xi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
溪 is an HSK 6 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.