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双方

shuāng fāng

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

双方 (shuāng fāng) means "both sides; both parties". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 双方 means

1. bilateral
2. both sides
3. both parties involved

The characters in 双方

• 双shuāngtwo; double; pair
• 方fāngsquare; power or involution (math.); upright

Example sentences

• 双方本周举行会谈。
  The two sides hold talks this week.
• 双方都有几千人受伤。
  Shuāngfāng dōu yǒu jǐqiān rén shòushāng.
  Many thousands on both sides had been wounded.
• 首先，我要听听双方的意见。
  Shǒuxiān, wǒ yào tīngting shuāngfāng de yìjiàn.
  First, I should hear both sides.
• 双方在会谈中友好地交换了看法。
  Shuāngfāng zài huìtán zhōng yǒuhǎo de jiāohuàn le kànfǎ.
  Both parties exchanged ideas cordially in the discussion.
• 事故双方的说法相差太大，当局难以判断哪一方说的是实话。
  The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.

Words starting with 双方

• 双方同意shuāng fāng tóng yìbilateral agreement

Where 双方 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Commerce, Products & Business (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 shuāng fāng correctly.
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