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差别

chā bié

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 差別

差别 (chā bié) means "difference". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 差别 means

1. difference; distinction; disparity

The characters in 差别

• 差chàdifferent; wrong; mistaken; to fall short; to lack
• 别biéto leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish…

Example sentences

• 这对我没什么差别。
  Zhè duì wǒ méishénme chābié.
  It makes no difference to me.
• 我看不出有什么差别。
  Wǒ kàn bù chū yǒu shénme chābié.
  I don't see any difference.
• 我看不出有什幺差别。
  I don't see any difference.
• 两者之间有显着的差别。
  There are noticeable differences between the two.
• 吹嘘与雄心的差别甚小。
  The difference between bragging and being ambitious is miniscule.
• 两者之间只有很小的差别。
  There is only a marginal difference between the two.

Where 差别 is taught

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

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