吝啬吝嗇 in English

Character breakdown

• 吝恡 lìn (bound form) stingy
• 啬嗇 sè stingy

How it used to be written

吝

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 7 forms

啬

These are the forms of 嗇, the traditional character: 啬 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 18 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 他非常吝啬。

  He is very stingy with his money.

• 你真是个吝啬鬼！

  What a miser you are!

• 你这个吝啬的老头。

  You're a mean old man.

• 玛莉不喜欢跟汤姆一样吝啬的男人。

  Mary doesn't like men who are stingy like Tom.

All example sentences with 吝啬