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小心翼翼

xiǎo xīn yì yì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

小心翼翼 (xiǎo xīn yì yì) means "cautious and solemn (idiom); very carefully; prudent; gently and cautiously". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 小心翼翼 means

1. idiomcautious; careful; prudent

The characters in 小心翼翼

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 心xīnheart; mind; intention
• 翼yìwing; area surrounding the bullseye of a target; to assist
• 翼yìwing; area surrounding the bullseye of a target; to assist

Example sentences

• 她小心翼翼地走。
  She walked very carefully.
• 警察小心翼翼地抬起箱子。
  Jǐngchá xiǎoxīnyìyì de táiqǐ xiāngzi.
  The policeman lifted the box carefully.
• 老人小心翼翼地过了马路。
  The old man walked across the road carefully.
• 我妈妈小心翼翼地打开门。
  My mother opened the door very carefully.
• 警察小心翼翼地抬起了箱子。
  Jǐngchá xiǎoxīn-yìyì de táiqǐ le xiāngzi.
  The policeman lifted the box carefully.
• 汤姆小心翼翼地把刀子上的指纹擦掉。
  Tāngmǔ xiǎoxīnyìyì de bǎ dāozi shàng de zhǐwén cādiào.
  Tom carefully wiped his fingerprints off the knife.

Where 小心翼翼 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiàng–xiào (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 xiǎo xīn yì yì correctly.
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