奢侈

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Chinese

		extravagant	extravagant; wasteful; exaggerating
trad. (奢侈)		奢	侈
simp. ^#(奢侈)		奢	侈
anagram		侈奢

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): shēchǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄕㄜㄔˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ce¹ ci² / se¹ ci²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhia-chhír / chhia-chhí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: shēchǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄕㄜㄔˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: shechǐh
  - Wade–Giles: shê¹-chʻih³
  - Yale: shē-chř
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shechyy
  - Palladius: шэчи (šɛči)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤ⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ce¹ ci² / se¹ ci²
  - Yale: chē chí / sē chí
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tse¹ tsi² / se¹ tsi²
  - Guangdong Romanization: cé¹ qi² / sé¹ qi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵ t͡sʰiː³⁵/, /sɛː⁵⁵ t͡sʰiː³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhia-chhír
  - Tâi-lô: tshia-tshír
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰia³³ t͡sʰɯ⁵⁵⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhia-chhí
  - Tâi-lô: tshia-tshí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiachie
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰi⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰia⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰi⁵³/

Adjective

奢侈

luxurious; extravagant
閒居是一種奢侈。 [MSC, trad.]
闲居是一种奢侈。 [MSC, simp.]
Xiánjū shì yī zhǒng shēchǐ.
Being able to stay at home doing nothing in particular is a kind of luxury.
- 夫以奢侈之君，御妤淫僻之民，欲國無亂，不可得也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  夫以奢侈之君，御妤淫僻之民，欲国无乱，不可得也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Mozi, c. 4^th century BCE
  Fú yǐ shēchǐ zhī jūn, yù yú yínpì zhī mín, yù guó wúluàn, bùkě dé yě.
  To have wasteful and extravagant rulers achieve good control over dissolute and mean people, and desire the state to be without disorder is out of the question.

Synonyms

侈奢 (chǐshē) (formal)
奢華／奢华 (shēhuá)
奢靡
排場／排场
繁華／繁华 (fánhuá) (literary)
豪華／豪华 (háohuá)
鋪張／铺张 (pūzhāng)
鋪排／铺排 (pūpái)

Derived terms

奢侈品 (shēchǐpǐn)

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