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出现

chū xiàn

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 出現

出现 (chū xiàn) means "to appear". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 出现 means

1. to appear
2. to arise
3. to emerge
4. to show up

The characters in 出现

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 现xiànto appear; present; now

Example sentences

• 烟雾出现了。
  Yānwù chūxiàn le.
  Smoke appeared.
• 她没有出现。
  She did not turn up.
• 地球出现了。
  Earth appeared.
• 怪物出现了。
  The creature appeared.
• 蚂蚁出现了。
  Ants appeared.
• 出现了新困难。
  A new difficulty has arisen.

Sounds the same

Read chū xiàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

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Where 出现 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Achievement, Change & Progress (HSK 3), 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 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chū xiàn correctly.
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