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处置

chǔ zhì

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

处置 (chǔ zhì) means "to handle; to take care of; to punish". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 处置 means

1. to handle
2. to take care of
3. to punish

The characters in 处置

• 处chǔto reside; to live; to dwell
• 置zhìto install; to place; to put

Example sentences

• 可怜的人民任凭残暴的独裁者处置。
  Kělián de rénmín rènpíng cánbào de dúcáizhě chǔzhì.
  The poor people were at the mercy of the cruel dictator.
• 在新加坡，鞭刑是处置犯人的方法之一。
  Zài Xīnjiāpō, biān xíng shì chǔzhì fànrén de fāngfǎ zhīyī.
  In Singapore, one way to punish a criminal is to whip him or her.

Sounds the same

Read chǔ zhì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 处治to punish; to handle; to deal with (literary)

Where 处置 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chuàn–zhuàn (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 chǔ zhì correctly.
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