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尾气

wěi qì

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

尾气 (wěi qì) means "exhaust; emissions". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 尾气 means

1. exhaust; emissions

The characters in 尾气

• 尾wěitail; remainder; remnant
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Example sentences

• 汽车尾气在城镇里造成了严重的污染。
  Car exhaust causes serious pollution in towns.

Sounds the same

Read wěi qì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 伟器great talent

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read wěi qì correctly.
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