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冰山一角

bīng shān yī jiǎo

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

冰山一角 (bīng shān yī jiǎo) means "tip of the iceberg". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 冰山一角 means

1. tip of the iceberg

The characters in 冰山一角

• 冰bīngice; to chill sth; (of an object or substance) to feel cold
• 山shānmountain; hill; (colloquial) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on
• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 角jiǎoangle; corner; horn

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