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告诫

gào jiè

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

告诫 (gào jiè) means "to warn; to admonish". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 告诫 means

1. to warn
2. to admonish

The characters in 告诫

• 告gào(bound form) to say; to tell; to announce; to report; to denounce
• 诫jiècommandment; to prohibit

Example sentences

• 他告诫他们不要吵闹。
  Tā gàojiè tāmen bù yào chǎonào.
  He admonished them for being noisy.

Words containing 告诫

• 谆谆告诫zhūn zhūn gào jièto repeatedly advise sb earnestly (idiom); to admonish

Sounds the same

Read gào jiè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 告戒variant of 告诫

Where 告诫 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gǎng–gē (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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