Chinese Word Detail

Remove Adverts
What is this page showing me?

粗心大意

cou1 sam1 daai6 ji3

cu1 xin1 da4 yi4

careless; negligent

Level: 3 Google Frequency: 258,000

This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

粗心大意

This word was added by tym on 18th Mar 2005 and last edited on 30th Oct 2008

Sponsors: One-on-One Online Chinese Tutoring | Classic Games | Chinese Language
Learn Spanish | Best Dish Network promotion | Living in China

粗 cou1 cu1 - rough; careless
心 sam1 xin1 - heart
大 daai6 da4 dai4 - big
意 ji3 yi4 yi1 - thought; sentiments

Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/7567/]粗心大意[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/7567/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">粗心大意</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 粗心大意

Search CantoDict (safe search is on)

Please note, CantoDict currently supports searching for Simplified Chinese, but results will be returned in Traditional Chinese.

Hide Written and Spoken Hide Written 國 Hide Spoken粵

This page shows, from top to bottom:

a large version of the word in a traditional script font which you may need to install

: the Cantonese pronunciation of the word in jyutping.

: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin (only if present).

the meaning of the word, typed in by our volunteer editors
guidelines on whether the word can only be used in Spoken Cantonese etc (if nothing is present the word may be used in both Cantonese and Mandarin)
our arbitrarily assigned difficulty level
a smaller version of the character in a computerised, printed font
a list of each of the characters for the word, showing jyutping and meaning (if our dictionary contains that character)

this thread