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一举两得

yī jǔ liǎng dé

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 一舉兩得

一举两得 (yī jǔ liǎng dé) means "one move, two gains (idiom); two birds with one stone". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 一举两得 means

1. (lit.) one action, two gains (idiom)
2. (fig.) two birds with one stone

The characters in 一举两得

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 举jǔto lift; to hold up; to cite
• 两liǎngtwo; both; some
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…

Where 一举两得 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yào–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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