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压榨

yā zhà

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 壓榨

压榨 (yā zhà) means "to press; to squeeze; to extract juice, oil etc by squeezing". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 压榨 means

1. to press
2. to squeeze
3. to extract juice, oil etc by squeezing

The characters in 压榨

• 压yāto press; to push down; to keep under (control)
• 榨zhàto press; to extract (juice); device for extracting juice, oils etc

Example sentences

• 资本家倾向于压榨工人。
  The capitalists tend to exploit the working people.

Where 压榨 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · 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.
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