{"path":"/entry/34042","title":"小康 (xiǎo kāng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"小康 (xiǎo kāng): moderately affluent. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":34042,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["小康"],"TRADITIONAL":["小康"]}},"phonetic":"xiǎo kāng","phoneticKey":"xiao3 kang1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"moderately affluent","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"well-off","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"a period of peace and prosperity","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"Xiaokang, a Confucian near-ideal state of society, second only to Datong ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null},{"kind":"REF","text":null,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["大同"]}},"phonetic":"Dà tóng","phoneticKey":"Da4 tong2","readingId":27444}]}]}]}],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADVERB","NOUN"],"frequency":49178,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[{"readingId":34043,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["小康社会"],"TRADITIONAL":["小康社會"]}},"phonetic":"xiǎo kāng shè huì","gloss":{"simplified":"society in which the material needs of most citizens are adequately met","traditional":null}}],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":"small tranquility","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Book of Rites, Book 9 (《禮記·禮運》):","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Alternatively, from the Classic of Poetry, Poem 253 《詩經•大雅•民勞》","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"……如有不由此者，在埶者去，众以为殃，是谓小康。","traditional":"……如有不由此者，在埶者去，衆以為殃，是謂小康。"},"phonetic":"...... Rú yǒu bù yóu cǐ zhě, zài shì zhě qù, zhòng yǐ wéi yāng, shì wèi xiǎokāng.","english":"[…] Any rulers who did not follow this course were driven away by those who possessed power and position, and all regarded them as pests. This is the period of what we call Small Tranquillity.","ref":"The Book of Rites, c. 4ᵗʰ – 2ⁿᵈ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"},{"text":{"simplified":"民亦劳止，汔可小康。惠此中国，以绥四方。","traditional":"民亦勞止，汔可小康。惠此中國，以綏四方。"},"phonetic":"Mín yì láo zhǐ, qì kě xiǎokāng. Huì cǐ zhōngguó, yǐ suí sìfāng.","english":"The people indeed are heavily burdened,\nBut perhaps a little ease may be got for them.\nLet us cherish this centre of the kingdom,\nTo secure the repose of the four quarters of it.","ref":"The Classic of Poetry, c. 11ᵗʰ – 7ᵗʰ centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":7,"sourceName":"HSK 3.0","name":"Levels 7-9"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}