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寻常

xún cháng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 尋常

寻常 (xún cháng) means "usual; common; ordinary". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 寻常 means

1. usual; common; ordinary

The characters in 寻常

• 寻xúnto search; to look for; to seek
• 常chángalways; ever; often

Example sentences

• 我没做不寻常的事。
  Wǒ méi zuò bù xúncháng de shì.
  I did nothing out of the ordinary.
• 汤姆是个不寻常的人。
  Tom is an extraordinary man.
• 我听到一个不寻常的声音。
  I heard an unusual sound.
• 他天生具有不寻常的数学能力。
  Tā tiānshēng jùyǒu bù xúncháng de shùxué nénglì.
  He is endowed with unusual ability in mathematics.
• 最近你有看见什么不寻常的事吗？
  Zuì jìn nǐ yǒu kànjiàn shénme bù xúncháng de shì ma?
  Did you see anything unusual lately?
• 你最近有听到什么不寻常的事吗？
  Did you hear anything unusual lately?

Words containing 寻常

• 不同寻常bù tóng xún chángout of the ordinary; unusual
• 非同寻常fēi tóng xún cháng(idiom) extraordinary
• 异乎寻常yì hū xún chángunusual; extraordinary
• 超乎寻常chāo hū xún chángout of the ordinary; exceptional
• 非比寻常fēi bǐ xún cháng(idiom) extraordinary

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