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吝啬

lìn sè

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

吝啬 (lìn sè) means "stingy; mean; miserly". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 吝啬 means

1. stingy; mean; miserly

The characters in 吝啬

• 吝lìn(bound form) stingy
• 啬sèstingy

Example sentences

• 他非常吝啬。
  Tā fēicháng lìnsè.
  He is very stingy with his money.
• 你真是个吝啬鬼！
  What a miser you are!
• 你这个吝啬的老头。
  Nǐ zhège lìnsè de lǎotóu.
  You're a mean old man.
• 玛莉不喜欢跟汤姆一样吝啬的男人。
  Mǎlì bù xǐhuān gēn Tāngmǔ yīyàng lìnsè de nánrén.
  Mary doesn't like men who are stingy like Tom.

Words starting with 吝啬

• 吝啬鬼lìn sè guǐmiser; penny-pincher

Where 吝啬 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · liàng–lìn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lìn sè correctly.
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