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同志

tóng zhì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Measure word 位

同志 (tóng zhì) means "comrade; (slang) homosexual". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 同志 means

1. comrade
2. slanghomosexual

The characters in 同志

• 同tónglike; same; similar
• 志zhìaspiration; ambition; the will

Example sentences

• 我是同志。
  I'm gay.
• 你是同志。
  You're gay.
• 向雷锋同志学习。
  Learn from Comrade Lei Feng.
• 快步前进，同志们！
  Hurry on, comrades!
• 如果我是同志那又怎样？这能构成犯罪吗？
  Rúguǒ wǒ shì tóngzhì nà yòu zěnyàng? zhè néng gòuchéng fànzuì ma?
  And if I were gay, would that be a crime?
• 我的一个女性朋友喜欢跟我一起去同志酒吧。
  Wǒ de yī gè nǚxìng péngyou xǐhuan gēn wǒ yīqǐ qù tóngzhì jiǔbā.
  A female friend of mine loves to go to gay bars with me.

Words containing 同志

• 新剧同志会Xīn jù Tóng zhì huìNew Play Comrade Society, Chinese theatrical company founded in 1912, a continuation of…

Sounds the same

Read tóng zhì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 同治reign name of Qing emperor (1861-1875)
• 同质homogeneous
• 童稚child; childish

Where 同志 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tiáo–tóng (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.
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