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出神

chū shén

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

出神 (chū shén) means "spellbound; entranced; lost in thought". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 出神 means

1. spellbound
2. entranced
3. lost in thought

The characters in 出神

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 神shéngod; deity; supernatural; magical; mysterious; spirit; mind; energy

Example sentences

• 他的武功已经达到了出神入化的境界。
  Tā de wǔgōng yǐjīng dádào le chūshénrùhuà de jìngjiè.
  His martial arts prowess has already reached a level of sublime perfection.
• 汤姆出神地一边看着天空一边吸着香烟。
  Tāngmǔ chūshén de yībiān kàn zhe tiānkōng yībiān xīzhuó xiāngyān.
  Lost in thought, Tom watched the sky as he smoked a cigarette.
• 如果世界上没有神，那么我就用双手创造出神。
  Rúguǒ shìjiè shàng méiyǒu shén, nàme wǒ jiù yòng shuāngshǒu chuàngzào chūshén.
  If God doesn't exist in our world, then I will create God with my own hands.
• 如果世界上没有神，那幺我就用双手创造出神。
  If God doesn't exist in our world, then I will create God with my own hands.

Words starting with 出神

• 出神入化chū shén rù huàto reach perfection (idiom); a superb artistic achievement
• 出神音乐chū shén yīn yuètrance (music genre)

Words containing 出神

• 传出神经chuán chū shén jīngefferent nerve (transmitting out from the brain); efferent neuron; motor nerve

Where 出神 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chóu–chū (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chū shén correctly.
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