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凄凉

qī liáng

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

凄凉 (qī liáng) means "mournful; miserable; desolate (place)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 凄凉 means

1. mournful; miserable

Other readings

凄凉 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• qī liángdesolate (place)

The characters in 凄凉

• 凄qīintense cold; frigid; dismal
• 凉liángcool; cold

Example sentences

• 看着眼前凄凉的景象，我们不禁流下了泪来。
  Kàn zhe yǎnqián qīliáng de jǐngxiàng, wǒmen bù jīn liú xià le lèi lái.
  The pitiful sight moved us to tears.

Where 凄凉 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qī liáng correctly.
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