疏 (shū)
negligent; sparse; to drift apart
How 疏 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- ⺪ — bolt of cloth
- Traditional
- 疏
- Simplified
- 疏 (unchanged)
Components
- ⺪ bolt of cloth
- 亠 lid
- 厶 private
- 儿 legs
- 丨 line
Common words using 疏
- 生疏 shēngshū
- unfamiliar; strange; out of practice
- 疏忽 shūhu
- to neglect; to overlook; negligence
- 疏遠 shūyuǎn
- to drift apart; to become estranged; to alienate
- 疏導 shūdǎo
- to dredge; to open up a path for; to remove obstructions
- 疏散 shūsàn
- to scatter; to disperse; to evacuate
- 疏疏 shūshū
- sparse; blurred; old for 楚楚[chu3 chu3]
- 疏而不漏 shūérbùlòu
- loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子); the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape
- 疏離 shūlí
- to become alienated; estranged; alienation
- 疏鬆 shūsōng
- to loosen
- 稀疏 xīshū
- sparse; infrequent; thinly spread
- 親疏 qīnshū
- close and distant (relatives)
- 骨質疏鬆症 gǔzhìshūsōngzhèng
- osteoporosis
疏 in a sentence
因為工作太忙，他疏忽了家庭。
Yīnwèi gōngzuò tài máng, tā shūhū le jiātíng.
“Because he was too busy with work, he neglected his family.”
How common is 疏?
疏 is the 1,894th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96.7% of all running text.
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