式sik1微mei4

English

1. (literary) to decline
2. to wane
3. title of a section in the Book of Songs 詩經|诗经[Shi1 jing1]
4. to decline graduallyunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 形容文化、習俗等慢慢衰落unreviewed?

Examples

• 那個男人大聲咆哮，但她訓練有素的客服式微笑始終沒有消退。

  The man ranted and raved, but her well practiced customer service smile remained unflinching.

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• unreviewed?

  工廠北移之後，製造業開始式微。

  After factories moved north, the manufacturing industry started to decline.