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严厉

yán lì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 嚴厲

严厉 (yán lì) means "severe; stern". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 严厉 means

1. severe
2. strict

The characters in 严厉

• 严yántight (closely sealed); stern; strict
• 厉lìstrict; severe

Example sentences

• 我们要严厉。
  We have to be strict.
• 他严厉却善良。
  He is strict yet kind.
• 她严厉地指责我。
  Tā yánlì de zhǐzé wǒ.
  She sternly accuses me.
• 他对懒惰的人很严厉。
  Tā duì lǎnduò de rén hěn yánlì.
  He is very hard on lazy people.
• 我被那位老师严厉斥责了。
  Wǒ bèi nà wèi lǎoshī yánlì chìzé le.
  I got scolded severely by that teacher.
• 艾希勒女士对学生严厉是出了名的。
  Ms. Eichler had a notorious reputation for being austere to her students.

Words starting with 严厉

• 严厉打击yán lì dǎ jīto strike a severe blow; to crack down; to take strong measures
• 严厉批评yán lì pī píngto criticize severely; to slate

Sounds the same

Read yán lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 沿例following the model; according to precedent
• 妍丽beautiful

Where 严厉 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yǎn (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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