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力气

lì qi

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 力氣

力气 (lì qi) means "strength". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 力气 means

1. physical strength

The characters in 力气

• 力lìpower; force; strength
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Example sentences

• 我没力气了。
  I have no strength.
• 你白费力气了。
  You're barking up the wrong tree.
• 我没力气说话了。
  Wǒ méi lìqi shuōhuà le.
  I no longer have the energy to talk.
• 我的力气耗尽了。
  Wǒ de lìqi hàojìn le.
  My strength is all gone.
• 我没力气继续尝试了。
  Wǒ méi lìqi jìxù chángshì le.
  I don't have the strength to keep trying.

Words containing 力气

• 卖力气mài lì qito make a living doing manual labor; to give sth all one's got
• 吃奶的力气chī nǎi de lì qiall one's strength

Where 力气 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health & body (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lì qi correctly.
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