IDENTITY
私sīprivate; personal
HSK 4Top 700
CORE MEANING
private; personal
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.private; personalHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 禾grain radical (hé)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰禾厶
- grain (one’s own field)
- the private
USAGE
Common words
私人sīrénprivate
自私zìsīselfish
Graded examples
他开的是私人公司。Tā kāi de shì sīrén gōngsī.HSK6
He runs a private company.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
One’s own grain (禾) kept close (厶) — private. (From 私, grain; 厶 = selfish.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #700
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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