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参考

cān kǎo

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 參考

参考 (cān kǎo) means "to consult; to refer to; reference". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 参考 means

1. consultation
2. reference
3. to consult
4. to refer

The characters in 参考

• 参cānto take part in; to participate; to join
• 考kǎoto beat; to hit; variant of 考

Example sentences

• 汤姆很仔细地参考地图。
  Tāngmǔ hěn zǐxì de cānkǎo dìtú.
  Tom is looking closely at the map.
• 不留名或详细的参考什么都可以。
  Bù liú míng huò xiángxì de cānkǎo shénme dōu kěyǐ.
  Anonymity or detailed reference are both fine.
• 在英国的时候，我经常看参考书。
  Zài Yīngguó de shíhou, wǒ jīngcháng kàn cānkǎoshū.
  While in England I often consulted the guidebook.
• 不留名或详细的参考什幺都可以。
  Anonymity or detailed reference are both fine.
• 我也不喜欢谷歌翻译，但是我经常会使用它作为参考。
  Wǒ yě bù xǐhuan Gǔgē fānyì, dànshì wǒ jīngcháng huì shǐyòng tā zuòwéi cānkǎo.
  I don't like to use Google's auto-translation, but I do use it for comparison.
• 正如我们的数学家所言，这个空间有三个维度，可称之为长度，宽度和厚度，并且始终可以通过参考三个平面来定义，每个平面彼此成直角。
  Zhèngrú wǒmen de shùxuéjiā suǒ yán, zhège kōngjiān yǒu sān gè wéidù, kě chēngzhīwéi chángdù, kuāndù hé hòudù, bìngqiě shǐzhōng kěyǐ tōngguò cānkǎo sān gè píngmiàn lái dìngyì, měi gè píngmiàn bǐcǐ chéng zhíjiǎo.
  That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and is always definable by reference to three planes, each at right angles to the others.

Words starting with 参考

• 参考书cān kǎo shūreference book
• 参考消息Cān kǎo Xiāo xīReference News (PRC limited-distribution daily newspaper)
• 参考系cān kǎo xìframe of reference
• 参考文献cān kǎo wén xiàncited material; reference (to the literature); bibliography
• 参考材料cān kǎo cái liàoreference material; source documents
• 参考资料cān kǎo zī liàoreference material; bibliography
• 参考椭球体cān kǎo tuǒ qiú tǐreference ellipsoid (geodesy)

Words containing 参考

• 仅供参考jǐn gōng cān kǎofor reference only
• 仅作参考jǐn zuò cān kǎofor reference only

Where 参考 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Science, Research & Inquiry (HSK 5), 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 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cān kǎo correctly.
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