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夕阳

xī yáng

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

夕阳 (xī yáng) means "sunset; the setting sun". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 夕阳 means

1. sunset
2. the setting sun

The characters in 夕阳

• 夕xī(bound form) sunset; dusk; (bound form) evening; night; Taiwan pr. xì
• 阳yángpositive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism)

Example sentences

• 夕阳西下。
  Xīyángxīxià.
  The sun is going down.
• 我们看着夕阳西下。
  Wǒmen kàn zhe xīyángxīxià.
  We are watching the sun set.
• 美丽的夕阳，不是吗？
  Měilì de xīyáng, bùshìma?
  A beautiful sunset, isn't it?
• 你看过这么美的夕阳吗?
  Nǐ kàn guo zhème Měidí xīyáng ma?
  Have you ever seen such a beautiful sunset?

Words starting with 夕阳

• 夕阳西下xī yáng xī xiàthe sun sets in the west (idiom)
• 夕阳产业xī yáng chǎn yèsunset industry; declining industry

Sounds the same

Read xī yáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 西洋the West (Europe and North America); countries of the Indian Ocean (traditional)
• 昔阳see 昔阳县

Where 夕阳 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wù–xī (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 xī yáng correctly.
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