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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

少见 [shǎojiàn]
  1. 1. [Polite] (a form of greeting) I haven't seen you for a long time; I have seen very little of you these days—I'm very glad to see you again
  2. 2. seldom seen; infrequent; rare
    这种事情太少见了!
    This is indeed something rare.

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

少见 [shǎojiàn]
  1. 1. 见得不多;见识少
    少见多怪。
  2. 2. 客套话, 表示很少见到对方
    少见少见!这几年你去了哪里?
  3. 3. 很难见到;罕见
    一场多年来少见的透雨。

Examples

此书坊间少见
This book is rarely seen in the bookshops.
如此聪明的孩子很少见
Such an intellingent child is rarely seen.
用不着少见多怪。
There's nothing to be surprised at.
也许是我少见多怪。
Maybe it was all due to my own ignorance.
这只鸟是鸱鸮,非常少见
This is a rare strigidae.
这种植物只生长在回归带以北,在其他地方很少见
This type of plant only grows on the north of the tropic. They are quite rare in other places.
这种老式的吉普现在已经很少见了。
Such old-fashioned jeeps are not often seen today.
因为我家的姓氏比较少见,所以就和一个同姓的家族联宗了。
Because the clan name of my family is rare, we recognized another family with the same surname to be combined branches of the same clan.
用涅石染把布料染黑,如今这已是一种很古老很少见的工艺了。
Using alunites to dye cloth black is now an old but rarely seen craft.

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