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勇气

yǒng qì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 勇氣

勇气 (yǒng qì) means "courage". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 勇气 means

1. courage

The characters in 勇气

• 勇yǒngbrave
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Example sentences

• 他缺乏勇气。
  He is wanting in courage.
• 我佩服你的勇气。
  Wǒ pèifú nǐ de yǒngqì.
  I admire your courage.
• 我佩服他的勇气。
  I admire him for his courage.
• 我很佩服他的勇气。
  Wǒ hěn pèifú tā de yǒngqì.
  I admire his courage.
• 你一定要鼓起勇气。
  Nǐ yīdìngyào gǔqǐyǒngqì.
  You must build up your courage.
• 没有人有勇气跟他说。
  Nobody had the courage to say it to him.

Words starting with 勇气

• 勇气可嘉yǒng qì kě jiāto deserve praise for one's courage (idiom)

Words containing 勇气

• 鼓起勇气gǔ qǐ yǒng qìto summon one's courage
• 鼓足勇气gǔ zú yǒng qìto summon one's courage

Where 勇气 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Greatness, Principles & Courage (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yǒng qì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.