小气鬼 (小氣鬼)
xiǎo qì guǐ
Pinyin

Definition

小气鬼 (小氣鬼)
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xiǎo qì guǐ
  1. miser
  2. penny-pincher

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

xiǎo
  1. 1 small
  2. 2 tiny
  3. 3 few
  4. 4 young
xiǎo xiǎo
  1. 1 very small
  2. 2 very few
  3. 3 very minor
xiǎo shí
  1. 1 hour
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
xī xuè guǐ
  1. 1 leech
  2. 2 bloodsucking vermin
  3. 3 vampire (translated European notion)
  4. 4 fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
dà dà xiǎo xiǎo
  1. 1 large and small
  2. 2 of all sizes

Idioms (20)

上有老下有小
shàng yǒu lǎo xià yǒu xiǎo
  1. 1 lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children
  3. 3 sandwich generation
不拘小节
bù jū xiǎo jié
  1. 1 to not bother about trifles (idiom)
五鬼闹判
wǔ guǐ nào pàn
  1. 1 Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells
以小人之心,度君子之腹
yǐ xiǎo rén zhī xīn , duó jūn zǐ zhī fù
  1. 1 to gauge the heart of a gentleman with one's own mean measure (idiom)
以小挤大
yǐ xiǎo jǐ dà
  1. 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)

Sample Sentences

小气鬼
xiǎoqìguǐ
cheapskate
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哎呀,我不是怕给中国人丢脸吗?我可不想被别人骂成是小气鬼。
āiyā ,wǒ bùshì pà gěi Zhōngguórén diūliǎn ma ?wǒ kě bù xiǎng bèi biérén mà chéng shì xiǎoqìguǐ 。
Jeez, but shouldn't I be afraid of making Chinese people look bad? I definitely don't want other people to call us cheapskates.
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小气鬼!
xiǎoqìguǐ !
Cheapskate!
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