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层出不穷

céng chū bù qióng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 層出不窮

层出不穷 (céng chū bù qióng) means "more and more emerge; innumerable succession; breeding like flies (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 层出不穷 means

1. more and more emerge
2. innumerable succession
3. breeding like flies (idiom)

The characters in 层出不穷

• 层céngto pile on top of one another; layer; stratum; floor (of a building); story
• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 穷qióngpoor; destitute; to use up

Where 层出不穷 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cǎo–chà (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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