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严重

yán zhòng

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

严重 (yán zhòng) means "grave". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 严重 means

1. grave; serious; severe; critical

The characters in 严重

• 严yántight (closely sealed); stern; strict
• 重zhòngheavy; serious; to attach importance to

Example sentences

• 严重吗？
  Is it serious?
• 情况非常严重。
  The situation is very serious.
• 她看来病得严重。
  She seems to be very ill.
• 我犯了严重错误。
  I made a serious mistake.
• 这个问题很严重。
  It is a serious problem.
• 这是很严重的病。
  It's a very serious illness.

Words starting with 严重

• 严重性yán zhòng xìngseriousness
• 严重问题yán zhòng wèn tíserious problem
• 严重后果yán zhòng hòu guǒgrave consequence; serious repercussion
• 严重关切yán zhòng guān qièserious concern
• 严重急性呼吸系统综合症yán zhòng jí xìng hū xī xì tǒng zōng hé zhèngsevere acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Words containing 严重

• 日趋严重rì qū yán zhòngmore critical with every passing day

Sounds the same

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

• 言中to have one's words prove to be prophetic
• 言重to speak seriously; to exaggerate

Where 严重 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Descriptions & quality (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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