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充斥

chōng chì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

充斥 (chōng chì) means "to be full of; to flood; to congest". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 充斥 means

1. to be full of
2. to flood
3. to congest

The characters in 充斥

• 充chōngsufficient; full; to fill; to serve as; to act as
• 斥chìto blame; to reprove; to reprimand

Example sentences

• 空气中充斥着海的气息。
  The air was permeated by the smell of the sea.
• 收音机广播充斥着有关最近爆炸的新闻。
  Shōuyīnjī guǎngbō chōngchì zhe yǒuguān zuì jìn bàozhà de xīnwén.
  News of the recent blast is all over the radio.
• 一篇大学论文描述了充斥在西方科幻作品中的「东方主义」。
  A university thesis describes the "Orientalism" that imbues sci-fi in the West.

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chōng chì correctly.
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