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后悔

hòu huǐ

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 後悔

后悔 (hòu huǐ) means "to regret; to feel remorse". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 后悔 means

1. to regret; to feel remorse

The characters in 后悔

• 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
• 悔huǐ(bound form) to regret; to repent

Example sentences

• 我不后悔。
  I don't regret it.
• 你会后悔的！
  You will regret it!
• 你会后悔的。
  You're going to regret this.
• 我后悔当老师。
  I regret becoming a teacher.
• 他迟早会后悔。
  He will regret it sooner or later.
• 我会让你后悔。
  I will make you regret it.

Words starting with 后悔

• 后悔莫及hòu huǐ mò jítoo late for regrets (idiom); It is useless to repent after the event.
• 后悔不迭hòu huǐ bù diétoo late for regrets

Words containing 后悔

• 吃后悔药chī hòu huǐ yào(fig.) to regret (doing sth)

Where 后悔 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Negative emotions & reactions (HSK 4), 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 4 word, with the rest of its level.
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