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削弱

xuē ruò

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

削弱 (xuē ruò) means "to weaken; to impair; to cripple". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 削弱 means

1. to weaken
2. to impair
3. to cripple

The characters in 削弱

• 削xuēto pare; to reduce; to remove
• 弱ruòweak; feeble; young; inferior; not as good as

Example sentences

• 如果系统工程师继续离开，公司的竞争优势将会被削弱。
  Rúguǒ xìtǒng gōngchéngshī jìxù líkāi, gōngsī de jìngzhēng yōushì jiānghuì bèi xuēruò.
  The company's competitive edge will be eroded if system engineers continue to leave.

Where 削弱 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xuǎn–yā (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 xuē ruò correctly.
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