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区别

qū bié

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 區別 Measure word 个

区别 (qū bié) means "difference". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 区别 means

1. difference
2. to distinguish
3. to discriminate
4. to make a distinction

The characters in 区别

• 区qūarea; region; district
• 别biéto leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish…

Example sentences

• 有什幺区别吗？
  Is there a difference?
• 这没有任何区别。
  That makes no difference.
• 钢琴和鱼有什么区别？
  Gāngqín hé yú yǒu shénme qūbié?
  What is the difference between a piano and a fish?
• 馒头和馍馍有区别吗？
  Mántou hé mómo yǒu qūbié ma?
  Is there a difference between steamed buns and steamed bread?
• 钢琴和鱼有什幺区别？
  What is the difference between a piano and a fish?
• 您很容易就能看出区别。
  Nín hěn róngyì jiù néng kànchū qūbié.
  You'll be able to see the difference very easily.

Words containing 区别

• 不加区别bù jiā qū biéindiscriminate

Where 区别 is taught

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

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