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叫板

jiào bǎn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

叫板 (jiào bǎn) means "to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song); (coll.) to challenge". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 叫板 means

1. to signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song)
2. colloquialto challenge

The characters in 叫板

• 叫jiàoto shout; to call; to order
• 板bǎnboard; plank; plate

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