Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- xī
- Xī
English
- formerly
- surname Xi
- former times
- ancient
- the past
- in beginning
- Taiwan pr. [xi2]
- the past
粵語
- 過去；往日
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Words containing 昔
- 昔日sik1 jat6
former days
- 奶昔naai5 sik1
milkshake (Note: 昔[xi1] is loaned from English "shake" via Cantonese 昔, pr. sik1)
- 往昔wong5 sik1
the past
- 古昔gu2 sik1
(literary) ancient times
- 昔年sik1 nin4
former years
- 果昔gwo2 sik1
(Tw) smoothie
- 昔陽sik1 joeng4
see 昔陽縣|昔阳县[Xi1 yang2 Xian4]
- 今昔gam1 sik1
past and present
- 宿昔suk1 sik1
formerly
- 今非昔比gam1 fei1 sik1 bei2
(idiom) things are very different now; times have changed
- 撫今追昔fu2 gam1 zeoi1 sik1
recall memories of the past while living in the present; compare the past with the present; one recalls the past
- 昔日香港sik1 jat6 hoeng1 gong2
- 昔日情懷sik1 jat6 cing4 waai4
- 昔士風sik1 si6 fung1
- 昔陽縣sik1 joeng4 jyun6
Xiyang, a county in Jinzhong City 晉中市|晋中市[Jin4 zhong1 Shi4], Shanxi
- 一如往昔jat1 jyu4 wong5 sik1
Like always
- 今不如昔gam1 bat1 jyu4 sik1
things are not as good as they used to be
- 今昔面貌gam1 sik1 min6 maau6
- 修昔底德sau1 sik1 dai2 dak1
Thucydides (c. 455–c. 400 BC), Greek historian and author of History of the Peloponnesian War
- 美洛昔康mei5 lok3 sik1 hong1
meloxicam (anti-inflammatory drug)
- 阿昔洛韋aa3 sik1 lok3 wai4
aciclovir (also spelled acyclovir), antiviral drug
- 修昔底德陷阱sau1 sik1 dai2 dak1 haam6 zing6
Thucydides Trap (theory that war may result when a rising power threatens to displace an established power)