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丢人

diū rén

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 丟人

丢人 (diū rén) means "to lose face". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 丢人 means

1. to lose face

The characters in 丢人

• 丢diūto lose; to put aside; to throw
• 人rénperson; people

Example sentences

• 真丢人！
  Zhēn diūrén!
  What a shame!
• 多丢人啊！
  Duō diūrén ā!
  How shameful!
• 哎，今天真丢人，我把衣服穿反了。
  āi, jīntiān zhēn diūrén, wǒ bǎ yīfu chuānfǎn le.
  Argh, I was so embarrassed today. I wore my clothes inside-out.

Words starting with 丢人

• 丢人现眼diū rén xiàn yǎnto make an exhibition of oneself; to be a disgrace

Where 丢人 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dīng–dōng (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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