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印象

yìn xiàng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

印象 (yìn xiàng) means "impression (sth that stays in one's mind)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 印象 means

1. impression (sth that stays in one's mind)
2. a memory

The characters in 印象

• 印yìnto print; to mark; to engrave
• 象xiàngelephant; shape; form

Example sentences

• 那留下了印象。
  That left an impression.
• 第一印象很重要。
  First impressions matter.
• 您使我印象深刻。
  You have left a heavy impression on me.
• 你对美国印象如何？
  What's your impression of the United States?
• 你对中国有什幺印象？
  What's your impression of China?
• 你对他的印象怎幺样？
  What's your impression of that person like?

Words starting with 印象

• 印象派yìn xiàng pàiimpressionism
• 印象分yìn xiàng fēnpoints gained by making a good impression; kudos; brownie points
• 印象主义yìn xiàng zhǔ yìimpressionism

Words containing 印象

• 有印象yǒu yìn xiàngto have a recollection (of sb or sth); to remember
• 刻板印象kè bǎn yìn xiàngstereotype

Where 印象 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Cognition & mental processes (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 yìn xiàng correctly.
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