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体贴

tǐ tiē

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 體貼

体贴 (tǐ tiē) means "considerate (of other people's needs)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 体贴 means

1. considerate (of other people's needs)

The characters in 体贴

• 体tǐbody; form; style
• 贴tiēto stick; to paste; to post (e.g. on a blog)

Example sentences

• 你真体贴。
  You are so considerate.
• 他对她很体贴。
  Tā duì tā hěn tǐtiē.
  He's very nice with her.
• 谢谢！真是体贴。
  Oh, thanks! How thoughtful.
• 他是个很体贴的人。
  Tā shì gè hěn tǐtiē de rén.
  He is a very thoughtful person.
• 党为自己的利益追求势力。我们对别人不体贴；我们只追求势力。
  Dǎng wèi zìjǐ de lìyì zhuīqiú shìli. wǒmen duì biéren bù tǐtiē; wǒmen zhǐ zhuīqiú shìli.
  The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.

Words starting with 体贴

• 体贴入微tǐ tiē rù wēito show every possible consideration (idiom); meticulous care

Where 体贴 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tǐ tiē correctly.
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