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勤奋

qín fèn

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

勤奋 (qín fèn) means "diligent, hardworking (effort in study/work)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 勤奋 means

1. hardworking
2. diligent

The characters in 勤奋

• 勤qíndiligent; industrious; hardworking; frequent; regular; constant; (bound form) work; duty…
• 奋fènto exert oneself (bound form)

Example sentences

• 父亲是个勤奋的人。
  Dad is a hard worker.
• 他们说他非常勤奋。
  They say that he's very diligent.
• 日本人是勤奋的国民。
  Rìběnrén shì qínfèn de guómín.
  The Japanese are an industrious people.
• 他年轻时很勤奋工作。
  In his younger days he worked very hard.
• 我们中国人都很勤奋。
  We Chinese are hard workers.
• 他很勤奋但不是很有天赋。
  Tā hěn qínfèn dàn bù shì hěn yǒu tiānfù.
  He is not so much a genius as a hard worker.

Where 勤奋 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Capability, Energy & Diligence (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 qín fèn correctly.
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