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堤坝

dī bà

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

堤坝 (dī bà) means "dam; dike". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 堤坝 means

1. dam
2. dike

The characters in 堤坝

• 堤dīdike; Taiwan pr. tí
• 坝bà(used in place names) plain; flatland; (dialect) sandbar; shoal

Example sentences

• 堤坝保护了城市免受洪灾。
  Dībà bǎohù le chéngshì miǎnshòu hóngzāi.
  The bank secured the city from a flood.

Where 堤坝 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dēng–dǐ (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 dī bà correctly.
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