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叙述

xù shù

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

叙述 (xù shù) means "to narrate, to relate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 叙述 means

1. to relate (a story or information)
2. to tell or talk about
3. to recount
4. narration
5. telling
6. narrative
7. account

The characters in 叙述

• 叙xùto narrate; to chat
• 述shù(bound form) to state; to tell; to narrate; to relate

Example sentences

• 详细叙述一下这起事故吧。
  Xiángxì xùshù yīxià zhè qǐ shìgù ba.
  Describe that accident in detail.
• 他详细地叙述了那场意外的经过。
  Tā xiángxì de xù shù le nà chǎng yìwài de jīngguò.
  He gave a detailed description of the accident.

Words starting with 叙述

• 叙述性xù shù xìngnarrative

Words containing 叙述

• 综合叙述zōng hé xù shùto summarize; a summary

Sounds the same

Read xù shù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 序数ordinal number

Where 叙述 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Office, Study & Computing (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xù shù correctly.
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