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严格

yán gé

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 嚴格

严格 (yán gé) means "strict". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 严格 means

1. strict; stringent; tight; rigorous

The characters in 严格

• 严yántight (closely sealed); stern; strict
• 格gésquare; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit)…

Example sentences

• 我很严格。
  I'm very strict.
• 汤姆很严格。
  Tom's strict.
• 严格地说你错了。
  Yángé de shuō nǐ cuò le.
  Strictly speaking, you're wrong.
• 用不着这幺严格。
  There is no need to be so strict.
• 汤姆对此不严格。
  Tom isn't very strict about it.
• 参赛条件非常严格。
  Cānsài tiáojiàn fēicháng yángé.
  The contest has very strict eligibility requirements.

Words starting with 严格

• 严格来说yán gé lái shuōstrictly speaking
• 严格来讲yán gé lái jiǎngstrictly speaking
• 严格隔离yán gé gé lírigorous isolation

Sounds the same

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

• 沿革evolution of sth over time; course of development; history

Where 严格 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personality & character traits (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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