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单元

dān yuán

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

单元 (dān yuán) means "unit (of a book/building, forming one entity)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 单元 means

1. unit (forming an entity)
2. element
3. (in a residential building) entrance or staircase

The characters in 单元

• 单dānbill; list; form
• 元yuáncurrency unit (esp. Chinese yuan); (bound form) first; original; primary…

Words starting with 单元

• 单元房dān yuán fángapartment
• 单元格dān yuán gé(spreadsheet) cell

Words containing 单元

• 有限单元yǒu xiàn dān yuánfinite element (method)
• 图形处理单元tú xíng chǔ lǐ dān yuán(computing) graphics processing unit (GPU)
• 模块单元mó kuài dān yuánmodular unit
• 中央处理单元zhōng yāng chǔ lǐ dān yuán(computing) central processing unit (CPU)

Where 单元 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Inclusion, Components & Structure (HSK 5), 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 5 word, with the rest of its level.
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