奢靡

shēmí
adjective #54,310

Meanings

  1. 1 extravagant; wasteful
  2. 2 decadent

Examples

HSK 5
Tāmen de hūnlǐ bàn de tài shēmí le.
Their wedding was far too extravagant.
HSK 7-9
Zhōngyāng yāoqiú guānyuán fǎnduì shēmí zhī fēng, bùzhǔn yòng gōngkuǎn dàchī-dàhē.
The central leadership requires officials to oppose extravagance and forbids lavish banquets at public expense.

Tips

mistakes
靡 is second tone here, 'to waste'. The third-tone 靡 'to be swept along' is the reading in 风靡 'to be all the rage' and 萎靡 'listless'.
culture
In political language 奢靡之风 'a culture of extravagance' is one of the four bad work styles that the campaign launched in 2013 told officials to root out, together with formalism, bureaucratism and hedonism.

Stroke Order

奢 shē
靡 mǐ