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嫌疑

xián yí

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

嫌疑 (xián yí) means "suspicion; to have suspicions". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 嫌疑 means

1. suspicion
2. to have suspicions

The characters in 嫌疑

• 嫌xiánto dislike; suspicion; resentment
• 疑yí(bound form) to doubt; to suspect

Example sentences

• 警方逮捕了嫌疑人。
  Jǐngfāng dàibǔ le xiányírén.
  The police arrested the suspect.
• 两个侦探跟着嫌疑人。
  Liǎng gè zhēntàn gēnzhe xiányírén.
  Two detectives followed the suspect.
• 嫌疑犯目前性别不明。
  Xiányífàn mùqián xìngbié bù míng.
  The suspect's gender is currently unknown.
• 嫌疑人是一位白人女性。
  Xiányírén shì yī wèi báirén nǚxìng.
  The suspect is a caucasian female.
• 那嫌疑犯对侦察官撒了个谎。
  The suspect told a lie to the inspector.
• 这是被警察认为有嫌疑的男子。
  Zhè shì bèi jǐngchá rènwéi yǒu xiányí de nánzǐ.
  This is the man who's suspected by the police.

Words starting with 嫌疑

• 嫌疑人xián yí réna suspect
• 嫌疑犯xián yí fàna suspect

Where 嫌疑 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xián–xiǎn (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 xián yí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.