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全力以赴

quán lì yǐ fù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

全力以赴 (quán lì yǐ fù) means "to do at all costs; to make an all-out effort". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 全力以赴 means

1. idiomto make an all-out effort

The characters in 全力以赴

• 全quánall; whole; entire
• 力lìpower; force; strength
• 以yǐto use; by means of; according to
• 赴fùto go; to visit (e.g. another country); to attend (a banquet etc)

Example sentences

• 他在全力以赴。
  Tā zài quánlìyǐfù.
  He's doing his best.
• 我们全力以赴来完成工作。
  Wǒmen quánlìyǐfù lái wánchéng gōngzuò.
  We went all out to get the job done.

Where 全力以赴 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qiū–qǔ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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