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器官

qì guān

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

器官 (qì guān) means "(physiology) organ; apparatus". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 器官 means

1. (physiology) organ; apparatus

The characters in 器官

• 器qìdevice; tool; utensil
• 官guāngovernment official; governmental; official

Example sentences

• 舌头和上颚都是味觉器官。
  Shétou hé shàng'è dōu shì wèijué qìguān.
  The tongue and the palate are the taste organs.
• 相反，他们通过舌头来侦测声音，并通过头骨内的感觉器官来感受震动。
  Xiāngfǎn, tāmen tōngguò shétou lái zhēncè shēngyīn, bìng tōngguò tóugǔ nèi de gǎnjuéqìguān lái gǎnshòu zhèndòng.
  Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.

Words starting with 器官

• 器官捐献者qì guān juān xiàn zhěorgan donor
• 器官移殖qì guān yí zhíorgan transplant

Words containing 器官

• 性器官xìng qì guānsexual organ
• 源器官yuán qì guānsource organ
• 类器官lèi qì guānorganoid (regenerative medicine)
• 人体器官rén tǐ qì guānhuman organ
• 发声器官fā shēng qì guānvocal organs; vocal cords
• 发音器官fā yīn qì guānvocal organs; vocal cords
• 感觉器官gǎn jué qì guānsense organs; the five senses
• 生殖器官shēng zhí qì guānreproductive organ

Where 器官 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qì–qǐ (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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