七夕
Qī xī
Pinyin

Definition

七夕
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Qī xī
  1. double seven festival, evening of seventh of lunar seventh month
  2. girls' festival
  3. Chinese Valentine's day, when Cowherd and Weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女 are allowed their annual meeting

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

七
qī
  1. 1 seven
  2. 2 7
除夕
Chú xī
  1. 1 lunar New Year's Eve
七十
qī shí
  1. 1 seventy
  2. 2 70
七彩
qī cǎi
  1. 1 seven colors
  2. 2 a variety of colors
  3. 3 multi-colored
  4. 4 rainbow-colored
七月
Qī yuè
  1. 1 July
  2. 2 seventh month (of the lunar year)

Idioms (20)

一夕数惊
yī xī shù jīng
  1. 1 one scare after another (idiom)
  2. 2 in a constant state of tension
一朝一夕
yī zhāo yī xī
  1. 1 lit. one morning and one evening (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. in a short period of time
  3. 3 overnight
七手八脚
qī shǒu bā jiǎo
  1. 1 (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
七扭八歪
qī niǔ bā wāi
  1. 1 misshapen
  2. 2 crooked
  3. 3 uneven (idiom)
七窍生烟
qī qiào shēng yān
  1. 1 lit. spouting smoke through the seven orifices (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to seethe with anger

Sample Sentences

你知道吗？很多人都觉得中国的情人节是“七夕”，因为有牛郎织女的故事。可其实在古代，真正的情人节可是元宵节。
nǐ zhīdào ma ？hěn duō rén dōu juéde Zhōngguó de qíngrénjié shì “qīxī ”，yīnwèi yǒu niúláng zhīnǚ de gùshi 。kě qíshí zài gǔdài ，zhēnzhèng de qíngrénjié kě shì yuánxiāojié 。
Do you know? Many people think that Chinese Valentine's Day is Qixi Festival, because of the story of the cowherd and the weaver girl. But actually in ancient times, the real Valentine's Day was Lantern Festival.
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是呀。以前流行过西方的情人节，现在七夕又被称作东方的情人节。更夸张的是今年因为有闰七月，所以出现了两个七 夕， 还号称是三十八年才能遇到一次的双情人节。因此商家的各种活动也层出不穷。
shì yā 。yǐqián liúxíng guò xīfāng de qíngrénjié ，xiànzài qīxī yòu bèi chēngzuò dōngfāng de qíngrénjié 。gèng kuāzhāng de shì jīnnián yīnwèi yǒu rùn qīyuè ，suǒyǐ chūxiàn le liǎng ge qīxī ， hái hàochēng shì sānshíbā nián cáinéng yùdào yīcì de shuāng qíngrénjié 。yīncǐ shāngjiā de gèzhǒng huódòng yě céngchūbùqióng 。
Yeah! In the past, many people celebrated the Western Valentine's Day. Now, Qixi is also being called ''The Valentine's Day of the East." Even more ridiculous, because there's an leap month this year, there are two Qixis. It's supposed to be the kind of double Valentine's Day that comes just once every thirty-eight years! So sales come out one after the other.
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