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出身

chū shēn

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

出身 (chū shēn) means "to be born of; to come from; family background". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 出身 means

1. to be born of
2. to come from
3. family background
4. class origin

The characters in 出身

• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 身shēnbody; life; oneself

Example sentences

• 我出身贫寒。
  Wǒ chūshēn pínhán.
  I grew up in a poor family.

Where 出身 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 shēn correctly.
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