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平凡

píng fán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

平凡 (píng fán) means "commonplace". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 平凡 means

1. commonplace
2. ordinary
3. mediocre

The characters in 平凡

• 平píngflat; level; smooth; to make even; to level; equal; on the same level
• 凡fánordinary; commonplace; mundane

Example sentences

• 我们过着十分平凡的生活。
  Wǒmen guo zhe shífēn píngfán de shēnghuó.
  We lead a very ordinary life.
• 她只是一个平凡的小女孩。
  Tā zhǐshì yī gè píngfán de xiáo nǚhái.
  She is just an ordinary girl.
• 生活真正的艺术是在平凡中看到不平凡。
  Shēnghuó zhēnzhèng de yìshù shì zài píngfán zhōngkàn dào bù píngfán.
  True art of life is to see the extraordinary amongst the ordinary.
• 贞子意识到，在生命将尽之际，曾经平凡无奇的事物，也会散发永恒的美。
  Sadako realized that, near death, even what was once mundane glows with an everlasting beauty.

Words containing 平凡

• 不平凡bù píng fánmarvelous; marvelously

Where 平凡 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · pīn–pǐn (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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