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冷淡

lěng dàn

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

冷淡 (lěng dàn) means "cold; indifferent". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 冷淡 means

1. cold
2. indifferent

The characters in 冷淡

• 冷lěngcold
• 淡dàninsipid; diluted; weak

Example sentences

• 我对她很冷淡。
  I was very cold towards her.
• 很多日本人对政治冷淡。
  Hěn duō Rìběnrén duì zhèngzhì lěngdàn.
  Lots of people in Japan are indifferent to politics.
• 据说日本人对认识的人亲切，对不认识的人却是十分冷淡。
  Jùshuō Rìběnrén duì rènshi de rén qīnqiè, duì bù rènshi de rén quèshì shífēn lěngdàn.
  It is said that Japanese people are kind to people they know, but rather cold to those they don't.
• 据说日本人对他们认识的人非常友好，对不认识的人非常冷淡。
  Jùshuō Rìběnrén duì tāmen rènshi de rén fēicháng yǒuhǎo, duì bù rènshi de rén fēicháng lěngdàn.
  It is said that the Japanese are very friendly to those that they know, and very indifferent to those they don't.

Words starting with 冷淡

• 冷淡关系lěng dàn guān xìcold relations (e.g. between countries)

Words containing 冷淡

• 性冷淡xìng lěng dànfrigidity

Where 冷淡 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · láo–yuè (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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