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冒充

mào chōng

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

冒充 (mào chōng) means "to feign; to pretend to be; to pass oneself off as". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 冒充 means

1. to feign
2. to pretend to be
3. to pass oneself off as

The characters in 冒充

• 冒màoto emit; to give off; to send out (or up, forth); to brave; to face; (bound form) reckless
• 充chōngsufficient; full; to fill; to serve as; to act as

Where 冒充 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · máng–méi (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 mào chōng correctly.
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