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压岁钱

yā suì qián

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 3-character word Traditional 壓歲錢

压岁钱 (yā suì qián) means "money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 压岁钱 means

1. money given to children as a gift on Chinese New Year's Eve

The characters in 压岁钱

• 压yāto press; to push down; to keep under (control)
• 岁suìclassifier for years (of age); year; year (of crop harvests)
• 钱qiáncoin; money; unit of weight, one tenth of a tael 两

Where 压岁钱 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xuǎn–yā (HSK 6), 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 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yā suì qián correctly.
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