in English

xiàn
to envy

How it used to be written

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

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

Examples

  • 我一点也不羡慕你的生活。

    I don't envy your life. Not even a little bit.

  • 我很羡慕你现在的生活。

    I'm really jealous of your life right now.

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