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双胞胎

shuāng bāo tāi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 雙胞胎 Measure word 对

双胞胎 (shuāng bāo tāi) means "twin". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 双胞胎 means

1. twin

The characters in 双胞胎

• 双shuāngtwo; double; pair
• 胞bāoplacenta; womb; born of the same parents
• 胎tāifetus; classifier for litters (of puppies etc); padding (in clothing or bedding)

Example sentences

• 玛丽怀了双胞胎。
  Mary is pregnant with twins.
• 她生了双胞胎女儿。
  She gave birth to twin girls.
• 我的孩子是双胞胎。
  My children are twins.
• 这对双胞胎没法区分。
  The twins are indistinguishable from each other.
• 汉妮和南妮是双胞胎。
  Hanni and Nanni are twins.
• Tom有个双胞胎兄弟。
  Tom has a twin brother.

Words containing 双胞胎

• 连体双胞胎lián tǐ shuāng bāo tāiconjoined twins; Siamese twins
• 同卵双胞胎tóng luǎn shuāng bāo tāiidentical twins
• 异卵双胞胎yì luǎn shuāng bāo tāifraternal twins

Where 双胞胎 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shuàn–sī (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 shuāng bāo tāi correctly.
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