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严寒

yán hán

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

严寒 (yán hán) means "bitter cold". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 严寒 means

1. bitter cold
2. severe winter

The characters in 严寒

• 严yántight (closely sealed); stern; strict
• 寒háncold; poor; to tremble

Example sentences

• 今天早上天气严寒。
  Jīntiān zǎoshang tiānqì yánhán.
  We had a heavy frost this morning.
• 竞选活动的声势也来自那些已不再年轻的人们，他们冒着严寒酷暑，敲开陌生人的家门进行竞选宣传；竞选声势也源自数百万的美国民众，他们充当志愿者和组织者，他们证明了在两百多年以后，民有、民治、民享的政府并未从地球上消失。这是你们的胜利。
  Jìngxuǎnhuódòng de shēngshì yě láizì nàxiē yǐ bù zài niánqīng de rénmen, tāmen màozhe yánhán kùshǔ, qiāokāi mòshēngrén de jiāmén jìnxíng jìngxuǎn xuānchuán; jìngxuǎn shēngshì yě yuánzì shùbǎiwàn de Měiguó mínzhòng, tāmen chōngdāng zhìyuànzhě hé zǔzhīzhě, tāmen zhèngmíng le zài liǎng bǎi duō nián yǐhòu, mín yǒu, mín zhì, mín xiǎng de zhèngfǔ bìng wèi cóng dìqiú shàng xiāoshī. zhè shì nǐmen de shènglì.
  It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.

Where 严寒 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yā (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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yán hán correctly.
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