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含义

hán yì

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

含义 (hán yì) means "implicit meaning". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 含义 means

1. meaning (implicit in a phrase)
2. implied meaning
3. hidden meaning
4. hint
5. connotation

The characters in 含义

• 含hánto keep in the mouth; to contain
• 义yìjustice; righteousness; meaning

Example sentences

• 这个词有两种含义。
  This word has two meanings.
• 我抓不到句子的确切含义。
  Wǒ zhuā bù dào jùzi de quèqiè hányì.
  I can't get at the exact meaning of the sentence.
• 含义是哪里有水井，哪里就有居民。
  Hányì shì nǎlǐ yǒu shuǐjǐng, nǎlǐ jiù yǒu jūmín.
  The implication was that where there was a well, there were residents.
• 同一个含义可以用很多不同方式写的句子来表示。
  Tóngyī gè hányì kěyǐ yòng hěn duō bù tóng fāngshì xiě de jùzi lái biǎoshì.
  You can write a sentence in a lot of ways and still keep the general message intact.
• 我们使用“ĝi”这个词，既不指男性，也不指女性，而是无性别、性别未知、或者性别无关紧要的事物。因此，我们几乎在所有情况下都可以用这个词平替“tio”，二者含义几乎一模一样。
  We use the word "ĝi" when we are not talking about a man or a woman, but about something that has no sex or whose sex is unknown or indifferent to us. Consequently, we can almost always use this word very well in place of "tio", whose meaning is almost the same.

Sounds the same

Read hán yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 寒意a nip in the air; chilliness
• 涵义content; meaning; connotation
• 含意meaning
• 涵意content; meaning; connotation

Where 含义 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · guò–huán (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 hán yì correctly.
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