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岩石

yán shí

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

岩石 (yán shí) means "rock". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 岩石 means

1. geologyrock

The characters in 岩石

• 岩yáncliff; rock
• 石shírock; stone; stone inscription

Example sentences

• 浪拍在岩石上。
  The waves crashed against the rocks.
• 一块岩石从上面落下。
  Yī kuài yánshí cóng shàngmiàn luòxià.
  A rock fell from above.
• 他的头撞到了一块岩石。
  Tā de tóu zhuàng dào le yīkuài yánshí.
  He hit his head against a rock.
• 他的头撞倒了一块岩石。
  Tā de tóu zhuàngdǎo le yīkuài yánshí.
  He hit his head against a rock.
• 从远处看，岩石像一张人的脸。
  Cóng yuǎnchù kàn, yánshí xiàng yī zhāng rén de liǎn.
  Seen at a distance, the rock looks like a human face.
• 海底的岩石缝里藏着一只章鱼。
  The crevice in the boulder on the ocean floor conceals an octopus.

Words starting with 岩石

• 岩石圈yán shí quān(geology) lithosphere
• 岩石学yán shí xuépetrology; lithology; study of rocks
• 岩石层yán shí céngrock stratum

Where 岩石 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yǎn (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 yán shí correctly.
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