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休克

xiū kè

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

休克 (xiū kè) means "shock (loanword); to go into shock". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 休克 means

1. medicineloanwordshock; to go into shock

The characters in 休克

• 休xiūto rest; to stop doing sth for a period of time; to cease
• 克kèto be able to; to subdue; to restrain

Words containing 休克

• 过敏性休克guò mǐn xìng xiū kèanaphylactic shock

Sounds the same

Read xiū kè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 修课to take a course

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiū kè correctly.
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