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包围

bāo wéi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 包圍

包围 (bāo wéi) means "to surround; to encircle; to hem in". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 包围 means

1. to surround; to encircle; to hem in

The characters in 包围

• 包bāoto cover; to wrap; to hold
• 围wéito encircle; to surround; all around

Example sentences

• 我们被包围了。
  We were surrounded.
• 他被一大群记者包围着。
  Tā bèi yī dà qún jìzhě bāowéi zhe.
  He was surrounded by a throng of reporters.
• 特种部队包围了建筑物。
  Tèzhǒng bùduì bāowéi le jiànzhùwù.
  Special forces surrounded the building.
• 在一个晴朗的十月天，奈尼湖在午后阳光下波光粼粼，船夫划桨载着游客穿过这片山区度假胜地最核心的景观，草木繁茂、松林复盖的喜马拉雅山峰将其包围。
  On a clear October day, Naini Lake shimmers in the afternoon sun as boatmen row tourists across the hill resort’s prime attraction nestled amid lush, pine-clothed Himalayan peaks.
• 四面八方都是巍峨的雪峰，将他们包围起来，彼此交错，一直延伸到遥远的地平线。两侧的岩岸陡峭无比，落叶松和松树彷佛悬在他们头顶，只需一阵风就能轰然落下。
  In every direction the great snow-capped peaks hemmed them in, peeping over each other's shoulders to the far horizon. So steep were the rocky banks on either side of them that the larch and the pine seemed to be suspended over their heads, and to need only a gust of wind to come hurtling down upon them.

Where 包围 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bàng–bó (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bāo wéi correctly.
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