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发愁

fā chóu

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 發愁

发愁 (fā chóu) means "to worry". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 发愁 means

1. to worry
2. to fret
3. to be anxious
4. to become sad

The characters in 发愁

• 发fāto send out; to show (one's feeling); to issue
• 愁chóuto worry about

Example sentences

• 不要为这事发愁。
  Bù yào wèi zhè shì fāchóu.
  Don't worry about it.

Where 发愁 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Emotions & Moods (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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