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充当

chōng dāng

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

充当 (chōng dāng) means "to serve as; to act as; to play the role of". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 充当 means

1. to serve as
2. to act as
3. to play the role of

The characters in 充当

• 充chōngsufficient; full; to fill; to serve as; to act as
• 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)

Example sentences

• 我为你充当导游。
  Wǒ wèi nǐ chōngdāng dǎoyóu.
  I'll act as a guide for you.
• 在韩语中，形容词通常充当描述性动词，这意味着它们可以像动词一样变位以表达不同的时态和语气。
  In Korean, adjectives often function as descriptive verbs, meaning they can be conjugated like verbs to express different tenses and moods.
• 竞选活动的声势也来自那些已不再年轻的人们，他们冒着严寒酷暑，敲开陌生人的家门进行竞选宣传；竞选声势也源自数百万的美国民众，他们充当志愿者和组织者，他们证明了在两百多年以后，民有、民治、民享的政府并未从地球上消失。这是你们的胜利。
  Jìngxuǎnhuódòng de shēngshì yě láizì nàxiē yǐ bù zài niánqīng de rénmen, tāmen màozhe yánhán kùshǔ, qiāokāi mòshēngrén de jiāmén jìnxíng jìngxuǎn xuānchuán; jìngxuǎn shēngshì yě yuánzì shùbǎiwàn de Měiguó mínzhòng, tāmen chōngdāng zhìyuànzhě hé zǔzhīzhě, tāmen zhèngmíng le zài liǎng bǎi duō nián yǐhòu, mín yǒu, mín zhì, mín xiǎng de zhèngfǔ bìng wèi cóng dìqiú shàng xiāoshī. zhè shì nǐmen de shènglì.
  It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.

Where 充当 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chì–chōu (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 chōng dāng correctly.
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