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出差

chū chāi

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

出差 (chū chāi) means "go on a business trip". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 出差 means

1. to go on an official or business trip

The characters in 出差

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 差chàdifferent; wrong; mistaken; to fall short; to lack

Example sentences

• 我来出差。
  I came on business.
• 我在这里出差。
  I am here on business.
• 他去名古屋出差。
  He's gone to Nagoya on business.
• 你来这里出差的？
  Are you here on business?
• 他在纽约出差呢。
  He has gone to New York on business.
• 他去纽约出差了。
  He went to New York on business.

Where 出差 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Work tasks & management (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chū chāi correctly.
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