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叮嘱

dīng zhǔ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 叮囑

叮嘱 (dīng zhǔ) means "to warn repeatedly; to urge; to exhort again and again". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 叮嘱 means

1. to warn repeatedly
2. to urge
3. to exhort again and again

The characters in 叮嘱

• 叮dīngto sting or bite (of mosquito, bee etc); to say repeatedly; to urge insistently
• 嘱zhǔto enjoin; to implore; to urge

Example sentences

• 真的不敢相信你在吃医生叮嘱不要食用的东西。
  Zhēn de bù gǎn xiāngxìn nǐ zài chī yīshēng dīngzhǔ bù yào shíyòng de dōngxi.
  I can't believe you are eating something the doctor has told you repeatedly you shouldn't eat.

Where 叮嘱 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dīng–dōng (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read dīng zhǔ correctly.
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