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后代

hòu dài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 後代

后代 (hòu dài) means "descendant". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 后代 means

1. descendant; progeny
2. posterity; later ages; later generations

The characters in 后代

• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 代dàito be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation…

Example sentences

• 现在是我们回答这个问题的机会。这是我们的时刻这是我们的时代--让我们的人民重新就业，为我们的后代敞开机会之门，恢复繁荣，推进和平，重新确立“美国梦”，再次证明这样一个基本的真理：我们是一家人；只要一息尚存，我们就有希望；当我们遇到嘲讽和怀疑，当有人说我们办不到的时候，我们要以这个永恒的信条来回应他们。是的，我们能做到
  Xiànzài shì wǒmen huídá zhège wèntí de jīhuì. zhè shì wǒmen de shíkè zhè shì wǒmen de shídài -- ràng wǒmen de rénmín chóngxīn jiùyè, wèi wǒmen de hòudài chǎngkāi jīhuì zhī mén, huīfù fánróng, tuījìn hépíng, chóngxīn quèlì "Měiguó mèng ", zàicì zhèngmíng zhèyàng yī gè jīběn de zhēnlǐ: wǒmen shì yījiārén; zhǐyào yī xī shàng cún, wǒmen jiù yǒuxīwàng; dāng wǒmen yùdào cháofěng hé huáiyí, dāng yǒurén shuō wǒmen bànbudào de shíhou, wǒmen yào yǐ zhège yǒnghéng de xìntiáo láihuí yīng tāmen. shìde, wǒmen néng zuòdào
  This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people.

Sounds the same

Read hòu dài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 厚待generous treatment

Where 后代 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · hóng–hū (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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