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前台

qián tái

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 前臺

前台 (qián tái) means "stage; proscenium; foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 前台 means

1. stage
2. proscenium
3. foreground in politics etc (sometimes derog.)
4. front desk
5. reception desk
6. computingfront-end
7. foreground

The characters in 前台

• 前qiánfront; forward; ahead
• 台tái(classical) you (in letters); variant of 台

Example sentences

• 她请了前台的人为她打那个号码。
  Tā qǐng le qiántái de rénwéi tā dǎ nàge hàomǎ.
  She has asked the person at the front desk to connect her to that number.

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