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尖锐

jiān ruì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 尖銳

尖锐 (jiān ruì) means "sharp; intense; penetrating". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 尖锐 means

1. sharp
2. intense
3. penetrating
4. pointed
5. acute (illness)

The characters in 尖锐

• 尖jiānpointed; tapering; sharp; (of a sound) shrill; piercing…
• 锐ruìacute

Example sentences

• 突然间她开始用尖锐的声音大喊。
  Tūránjiān tā kāishǐ yòng jiānruì de shēngyīn dàhǎn.
  All at once she began to shout in a shrill voice.
• 我在人来人往的街道上走着，突然听见一下尖锐的叫声。
  Wǒ zài rén lái rén wǎng de jiēdào shàng zǒu zhe, tūrán tīngjiàn yīxià jiānruì de jiàoshēng.
  I was walking along the crowded street when all at once I heard a shrill cry.
• 在光线充足的情况下，诺斯费拉图与普通吸血鬼很容易区分。诺斯费拉图有着尖锐的门牙，以及极为修长的手指，即所谓的蜘蛛指。
  With adequate lighting, one can easily discern Nosferatu, with his pointed incisors and extremely long-limbed fingers, known as arachnodactyly, from common vampires.

Words starting with 尖锐

• 尖锐化jiān ruì huàto intensify; to become acute; to come to a head
• 尖锐批评jiān ruì pī píngsharp criticism
• 尖锐湿疣jiān ruì shī yóugenital wart; condyloma acuminatum

Where 尖锐 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Miscellaneous Objects, Places & Terms A (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiān ruì correctly.
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