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丢脸

diū liǎn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 丟臉

丢脸 (diū liǎn) means "to lose face; humiliation". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 丢脸 means

1. to lose face
2. humiliation

The characters in 丢脸

• 丢diūto lose; to put aside; to throw
• 脸liǎnface

Example sentences

• 他丢脸了
  He lost face
• 你真丢脸！
  Shame on you!
• 我丢脸了。
  I lost face.
• 他丢脸了。
  He lost face.
• 那好丢脸呀。
  It's so embarrassing.
• 萨米感到非常丢脸。
  Sami feels so humiliated.

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