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一丝不苟

yī sī bù gǒu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 一絲不苟

一丝不苟 (yī sī bù gǒu) means "not one thread loose (idiom); strictly according to the rules; meticulous; not one hair out of place". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 一丝不苟 means

1. not one thread loose (idiom); strictly according to the rules
2. meticulous
3. not one hair out of place

The characters in 一丝不苟

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 丝sīsilk; thread-like thing; (cuisine) shreds or julienne strips…
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 苟gǒu(literary) if indeed; (bound form) careless; negligent; (bound form) temporarily

Where 一丝不苟 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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