喜新厭舊 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 喜新厌旧 xǐxīnyànjiù ㄒㄧˇ ㄒㄧㄣ ㄧㄢˋ ㄐㄧㄡˋ 男 女 lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom) fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new girlfriend), bored with the old Character by character 喜(xǐ)like 新(xīn)new 厭(yàn)loathe 舊(jiù)old Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0