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原材料

yuán cái liào

HSK 3.0 level 6 3-character word

原材料 (yuán cái liào) means "raw and semifinished materials". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 原材料 means

1. raw and semifinished materials

The characters in 原材料

• 原yuánformer; original; primary
• 材cáimaterial; timber; ability
• 料liàomaterial; stuff; grain

Example sentences

• 日本缺乏原材料。
  Rìběn quēfá yuáncáiliào.
  Japan is lacking in raw materials.
• 最终产品值所用原材料的10倍价格。
  The end product is worth ten times as much as the materials used.
• 原材料的价格如石油或者煤的不停地上升。
  Yuáncáiliào de jiàgé rú shíyóu huòzhě méi de bù tíng dìshang shēng.
  The prices of raw materials such as oil or coal continue to rise.

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