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峡谷

xiá gǔ

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

峡谷 (xiá gǔ) means "canyon; gill; ravine". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 峡谷 means

1. canyon
2. gill
3. ravine

The characters in 峡谷

• 峡xiágorge
• 谷gǔgrain; corn

Example sentences

• 峡谷对他来说非常深。
  The gorge looked very deep to him.
• 铁桥峡谷是联合国教科文组织世界遗产。
  Ironbridge Gorge is a Unesco world heritage site.

Words containing 峡谷

• 大峡谷Dà xiá gǔgreat valley; Grand Canyon of Colorado River
• 怒江大峡谷Nù jiāng Dà xiá gǔthe Grand Canyon of the Nujiang river in Tibet and Yunnan
• 科罗拉多大峡谷Kē luó lā duō dà xiá gǔthe Grand Canyon (Colorado)
• 雅鲁藏布大峡谷Yǎ lǔ zàng bù Dà xiá gǔGreat Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra…

Sounds the same

Read xiá gǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 狭谷glen

Where 峡谷 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiá–xì (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 xiá gǔ correctly.
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