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引用

yǐn yòng

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

引用 (yǐn yòng) means "to quote; to cite; to recommend". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 引用 means

1. to quote; to cite
2. to recommend; to appoint
3. computingreference

The characters in 引用

• 引yǐnto draw (e.g. a bow); to pull; to stretch sth
• 用yòngto use; to make use of; to employ; (coverb) with; using; to need…

Example sentences

• 他常引用米尔顿。
  Tā cháng yǐnyòng Mǐ'ěrdùn.
  He often quotes Milton.
• 这个引用出自哪里？
  Where does this quote come from?
• 他经常引用莎士比亚。
  Tā jīngcháng yǐnyòng Shāshìbǐyà.
  He often quotes from Shakespeare.
• 你中文真好，都能引用俗语了。
  Nǐ Zhōngwén zhēn hǎo, dōu néng yǐnyòng súyǔ le.
  Your Chinese is so good, you can quote proverbs.

Words starting with 引用

• 引用句yǐn yòng jùquotation

Words containing 引用

• 交叉引用jiāo chā yǐn yòngcross-reference (in a document, index etc)

Sounds the same

Read yǐn yòng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 饮用drink; drinking or drinkable (water)

Where 引用 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yì (2) (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 yǐn yòng correctly.
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