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cheap; inexpensive / a petty advantage / to let sb off lightly
HSK 2
to engage in petty theft
(idiom) meager profit; petty gain
petty advantage; small gains
clever-clever / clever in trivial matters / sharp but petty-minded
petty cash
warrant officer / petty officer / noncommissioned officer (NCO) / Japanese military officer
petty bourgeois
to carp / nitpicking / petty criticism
pediatrics / pediatric (department) / sth of little importance / trifle / a child's play / (slang) childish / petty / stingy
lowest-ranked noncommissioned officer (e.g. corporal in the army or petty officer, third class in the navy)
petty / small-minded
(old) petty official charged with reporting back to the ruler on what people in a locality are talking about / novel in the vernacular / fiction writer; novelist
to get smart / to resort to petty tricks
petty official / minor functionary
bad habit (e.g. nose-picking) / petty maneuver / dirty trick / gamesmanship
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *呫* | 呫* | *呫
to drink / to sip / to taste / to lick / whisper / petty
revolving fund / working capital / petty cash / turnover
small-minded / petty / narrow-minded
narrow; petty-minded
narrow-minded / petty
stingy / miserly / narrow-minded / petty
HSK 7-9
lit. small belly, chicken's gut (idiom); narrow-minded / petty
dirty; filthy / vile; despicable / (literary) narrow-minded; petty
petty crime / misdemeanor
(idiom) narrow-minded; petty; ungenerous
low ranking official / petty bureaucrat
romance / beautiful scenery / small or petty (of talk etc)
stingy / petty
to nitpick / petty criticism / to nag
trivial matters / petty things
pent-up frustration / petty annoyances
lit. the ant fights, the snail contends (idiom); fig. petty squabbling
humble / petty / crude
petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish) / empty-handed / having nothing
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *佌* | 佌* | *佌
petty / wretched
lit. to count on a narrow abacus (idiom); petty and scheming selfishly / concerned with petty interests / selfish and uncaring of the interests of others / bean counter
to be too petty or insignificant to mention / to not be worth mentioning (idiom)
petty or mean persons
petty favors
petty kindness


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