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垂头丧气

chuí tóu sàng qì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 垂頭喪氣

垂头丧气 (chuí tóu sàng qì) means "hanging one's head dispiritedly (idiom); dejected; crestfallen". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 垂头丧气 means

1. hanging one's head dispiritedly (idiom); dejected
2. crestfallen

The characters in 垂头丧气

• 垂chuíto hang (down); droop; dangle
• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top
• 丧sàngto lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc)…
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

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