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古典

gǔ diǎn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

古典 (gǔ diǎn) means "classical". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 古典 means

1. classical

The characters in 古典

• 古gǔancient; old; paleo-
• 典diǎncanon; law; standard work of scholarship

Example sentences

• 我喜欢古典音乐。
  I like classical music.
• 我会说古典希腊语。
  Wǒ huì shuō gǔdiǎn Xīlàyǔ.
  I speak Classical Greek.
• 贝蒂喜欢古典音乐。
  Betty likes classical music.
• 我放松时会听古典乐。
  I relax while listening to classical music.
• 你喜欢古典音乐, 对不对?
  You like classical music, don't you?
• 你必须每天背一篇古典文献。
  You should memorize a piece of classical literature every day.

Words starting with 古典

• 古典文学gǔ diǎn wén xuéclassical literature
• 古典乐gǔ diǎn yuèclassical music (mainly Western)
• 古典派gǔ diǎn pàiclassicists
• 古典语言gǔ diǎn yǔ yánclassical language
• 古典音乐gǔ diǎn yīn yuèclassical music

Words containing 古典

• 新古典xīn gǔ diǎnneoclassical
• 新古典主义xīn gǔ diǎn zhǔ yìneoclassicism

Sounds the same

Read gǔ diǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鼓点drum beat; rhythm

Where 古典 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Festivals, Traditions & Cultural History (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 gǔ diǎn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.