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单纯

dān chún

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 單純

单纯 (dān chún) means "simple, naive". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 单纯 means

1. simple
2. pure
3. unsophisticated
4. merely
5. purely

The characters in 单纯

• 单dānbill; list; form
• 纯chúnpure; simple; unmixed

Example sentences

• 留西雅是一个很单纯的姑娘。
  Liú xī yǎ shì yī gè hěn dānchún de gūniang.
  Lucia is a simple kind of girl.
• 我们当前的危机绝非单纯的经济危机。
  Our current crisis is no mere economic crisis.
• 我还记得我第一次去中国，我在山东，意识到那个单纯的省比英格兰大两万六千平方公里。
  Wǒ hái jìde wǒ dìyīcì qù Zhōngguó, wǒ zài Shāndōng, yìshí dào nàge dānchún de shěng bǐ Yīnggélán dà liǎng wàn liù qiān píngfānggōnglǐ.
  I still remember the first time I was in China; I was in Shandong, and I realised that that province alone is twenty six thousand square kilometres bigger than England.

Words starting with 单纯

• 单纯词dān chún cí(linguistics) single-morpheme word; simple word
• 单纯疱疹dān chún pào zhěnherpes simplex (med.)
• 单纯疱疹病毒dān chún pào zhěn bìng dúherpes simplex virus (HSV, med.)

Where 单纯 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personal Qualities & Character (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 dān chún correctly.
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