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以身作则

yǐ shēn zuò zé

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 以身作則

以身作则 (yǐ shēn zuò zé) means "to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 以身作则 means

1. to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model

The characters in 以身作则

• 以yǐto use; by means of; according to
• 身shēnbody; life; oneself
• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign
• 则zé(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then…

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