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剥夺

bō duó

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

剥夺 (bō duó) means "to deprive; to expropriate; to strip (sb of his property)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 剥夺 means

1. to deprive
2. to expropriate
3. to strip (sb of his property)

The characters in 剥夺

• 剥bōto peel; to skin; to flay
• 夺duóto seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of

Example sentences

• 没有人能剥夺你的人权。
  Méiyǒu rén néng bōduó nǐ de rénquán.
  No one can deprive of your human rights.
• 这项法律会剥夺我们的基本权利。
  Zhè xiàng fǎlǜ huì bōduó wǒmen de jīběn quánlì.
  This law will deprive us of our basic rights.

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