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兴高采烈

xìng gāo cǎi liè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 興高采烈

兴高采烈 (xìng gāo cǎi liè) means "happy and excited (idiom); in high spirits; in great delight". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 兴高采烈 means

1. happy and excited (idiom)
2. in high spirits
3. in great delight

The characters in 兴高采烈

• 兴xìngfeeling or desire to do sth; interest in sth; excitement
• 高gāohigh; tall; above average
• 采cǎito pick; to pluck; to collect
• 烈lièardent; intense; fierce

Sounds the same

Read xìng gāo cǎi liè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 兴高彩烈variant of 兴高采烈

Where 兴高采烈 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · háng–xìng (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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xìng gāo cǎi liè correctly.
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