| 稀 | [ xī ] rare, uncommon, watery, sparse |
| 稀世 | [ xī shì ] rare |
| 稀土 | [ xī tǔ ] rare earth (chemistry) |
| 稀土元素 | [ xī tǔ yuán sù ] rare earth element (chemistry) |
| 稀土金屬 | [ xī tǔ jīn shǔ ] rare earth element |
| 稀奇 | [ xī qí ] rare, strange |
| 稀奇古怪 | [ xī qí gǔ ] crazy, bizarre, weird, fantastic, strange |
| 稀客 | [ xī kè ] infrequent visitor |
| 稀少 | [ xī shaǒ ] sparse, rare |
| 稀巴爛 | [ xī bā làn ] same as 稀爛|稀烂[xi1 lan4] |
| 稀有 | [ xī yoǔ ] uncommon |
| 稀有元素 | [ xī yoǔ yuán sù ] trace element (nutrition) |
| 稀有氣體 | [ xī yoǔ qì tǐ ] rare gas, noble gas (chemistry) |
| 稀爛 | [ xī làn ] smashed up, broken into pieces, thoroughly mashed, pulpy |
| 稀疏 | [ xī shū ] sparse, infrequent, thinly spread |
| 稀稀拉拉 | [ xī xī lā lā ] sparse and fragmentary |
| 稀粥 | [ xī zhoū ] water gruel, thin porridge |
| 稀缺 | [ xī quē ] scarce, scarcity |
| 稀罕 | [ xī han ] rare, uncommon, rarity, to value as a rarity, to cherish, Taiwan pr. [xi1 han3] |
| 稀薄 | [ xī bó ] thin, rarefied |
| 稀裏糊塗 | [ xī li hú tu ] muddleheaded, careless |
| 稀裡嘩啦 | [ xī li huā lā ] (onom.) rustling sound, sound of rain or of sth falling down, in disorder, completely smashed, badly battered, broken to pieces |
| 稀釋 | [ xī shì ] to dilute |
| 稀里光當 | [ xī li guāng dāng ] thin, diluted |
| 稀飯 | [ xī fàn ] porridge, gruel |
| 稀鬆 | [ xī sōng ] poor, sloppy, unconcerned, heedless, lax, unimportant, trivial, loose, porous |
| 稀鬆骨質 | [ xī sōng gǔ zhì ] cancellous bone, trabecular bone, spongy bone |
| ⇒ 人煙稀少 | [ rén yān xī shaǒ ] no sign of human habitation (idiom); desolate |
| ⇒ 依稀 | [ yī xī ] vaguely, dimly, probably, very likely |
| ⇒ 古稀 | [ gǔ xī ] seventy years old |
| ⇒ 和稀泥 | [ huò xī ní ] to try to smooth things over, to paper over the issues, to gloss things over |
| ⇒ 地廣人稀 | [ dì guǎng rén xī ] vast, but sparsely populated |
| ⇒ 年逾古稀 | [ nián yú gǔ xī ] over seventy years old |
| ⇒ 抹稀泥 | [ mǒ xī ní ] see 和稀泥[huo4 xi1 ni2] |
| ⇒ 拉稀 | [ lā xī ] (coll.) to have diarrhea, to shrink back, to cower |
| ⇒ 漸稀 | [ jiàn xī ] to thin out gradually, to become fainter and fainter |
| ⇒ 物以稀為貴 | [ wù yǐ xī weí guì ] the rarer sth is, the greater its value (idiom) |
| ⇒ 珍稀 | [ zhēn xī ] rare, precious and uncommon |
| ⇒ 稀稀拉拉 | [ xī xī lā lā ] sparse and fragmentary |