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个别

gè bié

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 個別

个别 (gè bié) means "individual, rare cases". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 个别 means

1. individually; one by one
2. just one or two; exceptional; rare

The characters in 个别

• 个gè(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual
• 别biéto leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish…

Sounds the same

Read gè bié, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 各别distinct; different; separately; individually; unusual; novel

Where 个别 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Discourse Particles & Adverbs (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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