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定义

dìng yì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 定義

定义 (dìng yì) means "definition". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 定义 means

1. definition
2. to define

The characters in 定义

• 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…
• 义yìjustice; righteousness; meaning

Example sentences

• 你怎幺定义“幸福”？
  How would you define "happiness"?
• 你怎么看待这个词的定义？
  Nǐ zěnme kàndài zhège cí de dìngyì?
  What do you think of this word's definition?
• 你怎幺看待这个词的定义？
  What do you think of this word's definition?
• 我发现有明确定义的词最容易记住。
  Wǒ fāxiàn yǒu míngquè dìngyì de cí zuì róngyì jìzhu.
  I find words with concise definitions to be the easiest to remember.
• 要为一个字下定义比为字的用法举例更困难。
  To give a definition of a word is more difficult than to give an illustration of its usage.
• “网络成瘾症”这个理念将意味着“网络”是一种可以下定义的活动。
  "wǎngluòchéngyǐn zhèng " zhège lǐniàn jiāng yìwèizhe "wǎngluò " shì yīzhǒng kěyǐ xiàdìngyì de huódòng.
  The concept of “Internet addiction” implies that “the Internet” is some sort of definable activity.

Words starting with 定义

• 定义域dìng yì yùdomain (math.)

Words containing 定义

• 下定义xià dìng yìto define
• 自定义zì dìng yìcustom; user-defined
• 预定义yù dìng yìpredefined

Where 定义 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dīng–dōng (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 dìng yì correctly.
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