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仓促

cāng cù

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

仓促 (cāng cù) means "all of a sudden; hurriedly". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 仓促 means

1. all of a sudden
2. hurriedly

The characters in 仓促

• 仓cāngbarn; granary; storehouse
• 促cù(bound form) of short duration; hasty; rapid; (bound form) to hasten; to hurry; to urge…

Example sentences

• 这个故事仓促地结了尾。
  Zhège gùshi cāngcù de jié le wěi.
  The story ended suddenly.

Sounds the same

Read cāng cù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 仓卒variant of 仓促
• 仓猝variant of 仓促

Where 仓促 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cǎi–cāo (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 cāng cù correctly.
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