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变质

biàn zhì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 變質

变质 (biàn zhì) means "to go bad, degenerate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 变质 means

1. to degenerate; to deteriorate
2. (of food) to go bad; to go off
3. geologymetamorphism

The characters in 变质

• 变biànto change; to become different; to transform
• 质zhìcharacter; nature; quality

Example sentences

• 牛奶变质了。
  Niúnǎi biànzhì le.
  The milk has gone bad.

Words starting with 变质

• 变质作用biàn zhì zuò yòngmetamorphism (geology)
• 变质岩biàn zhì yánmetamorphic rock (geology)

Words containing 变质

• 易变质yì biàn zhìperishable
• 蜕化变质tuì huà biàn zhì(idiom) to degenerate (morally); to become depraved

Where 变质 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · biàn–biāo (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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