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形态

xíng tài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 形態

形态 (xíng tài) means "shape". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 形态 means

1. shape
2. form
3. pattern
4. morphology

The characters in 形态

• 形xíngto appear; to look; form
• 态tài(bound form); appearance; shape

Example sentences

• 生气是一种疯狂的形态。
  Anger is a form of madness.
• 水和冰虽然形态不同，但其实是同一种物质。
  Shuǐ hé bīng suīrán xíngtài bù tóng, dàn qíshí shì tóngyī zhǒng wùzhì.
  Water and ice are the same substance in different forms.
• 除了那些我们尝试过的政府形态，民主是最差的那种了。
  Chúle nèixiē wǒmen chángshì guo de zhèngfǔ xíngtài, mínzhǔ shì zuì chà de nèizhǒng le.
  Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
• 在更极端的变体中，顺性别意识形态可能包括否认阴阳人和跨性别者的现实经历。
  In its more extreme variants, cis ideology can include denial of the empirical reality of intersex and transgender people.
• 若要声称性别是二元的，就需要忽视阴阳人，这是不科学的，且纯粹属于意识形态问题。
  To claim sex is binary requires ignoring intersex people, which is unscientific and purely ideological.

Words starting with 形态

• 形态学xíng tài xuémorphology (in biology or linguistics)
• 形态发生素xíng tài fā shēng sùmorphogen

Words containing 形态

• 意识形态yì shí xíng tàiideology

Sounds the same

Read xíng tài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 型态form; shape; type

Where 形态 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · háng–xìng (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 xíng tài correctly.
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