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中立

zhōng lì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

中立 (zhōng lì) means "neutral; neutrality". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 中立 means

1. neutral
2. neutrality

The characters in 中立

• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during
• 立lìto stand; to set up; to establish

Example sentences

• 瑞士是一个中立的国家。
  Ruìshì shì yī gèzhōng lì de guójiā.
  Switzerland is a neutral country.
• 人不要怕穷，要穷中立志.
  Rén bù yào pà qióng, yào qióng zhōnglì zhì.
  One should not be scared of poverty, and instead, be determined amidst it.
• 信息产业部在其“十一五规划”（二零零六年至二零一零年）中立誓要实现村村通电话，乡乡能上网。
  Xìnxī chǎnyè bù zài qí "shíyī wǔ guīhuà "（ èr líng líng liù nián zhì èr líng yī líng nián ） zhōnglì shì yào shíxiàn cūn cūn tōngdiànhuà, xiāng xiāng néng shàngwǎng.
  In its "Eleven Five Plan" (2006 to 2010), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology pledged to implement phone connections in every village and Internet connections in every town.

Words starting with 中立

• 中立国zhōng lì guóneutral country
• 中立性zhōng lì xìngimpartiality; neutrality
• 中立派zhōng lì pàicentrist; the centrist faction

Words containing 中立

• 局外中立jú wài zhōng lìneutralism

Where 中立 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhì–zhōng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhōng lì correctly.
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