偏私
piān sī
Pinyin
Definition
偏私
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- to practice favoritism
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to lean
- 2 to slant
- 3 oblique
- 4 prejudiced
- 5 to deviate from average
- 6 to stray from the intended line
- 7 stubbornly
- 8 contrary to expectations
- 9 left-hand side of a split Chinese character, often the key or radical
- 1 (indicates that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately
- 2 as it happened
- 3 (indicates that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly
- 4 contrarily
- 5 against reason
- 6 (indicates that sb or a group is singled out) precisely
- 7 only
- 8 of all people
- 1 private
- 2 personal
- 3 interpersonal
- 4 sb with whom one has a close personal relationship
- 5 a member of one's clique
- 1 private correspondence
- 2 personal letter
- 3 (computing) personal message (PM)
- 4 to message sb
- 1 selfish
- 2 selfishness
Idioms (18)
以权谋私
- 1 to use one's position for personal gain (idiom)
假公济私
- 1 official authority used for private interests (idiom); to attain private ends by abusing public position
偏邪不正
- 1 biased
- 2 prejudiced (idiom)
公而忘私
- 1 for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom); to behave altruistically
- 2 selfless
剑走偏锋
- 1 the sword moves with side stroke (modern idiom)
- 2 fig. unexpected winning move
- 3 unconventional gambit