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形状

xíng zhuàng

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

形状 (xíng zhuàng) means "shape". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 形状 means

1. form; shape

The characters in 形状

• 形xíngto appear; to look; form
• 状zhuàng(bound form) form; appearance; shape; (bound form) state; condition…

Example sentences

• 那片云是鱼的形状。
  Nà piàn yún shì yú de xíngzhuàng.
  That cloud is in the shape of a fish.
• 所有饼干都是星星的形状。
  Suǒyǒu bǐnggān dōu shì xīngxing de xíngzhuàng.
  All of the cookies are in the shape of stars.
• 这种水果形状像橙子，味道像菠萝。
  This fruit is shaped like an orange and tastes like a pineapple.
• 那房子因为其少有的形状被突显出来。
  Nà fángzi yīnwèi qí shǎoyǒu de xíngzhuàng bèi tūxiǎn chūlái.
  The house stood out because of its unusual shape.
• 岩石经过风化后，形成了各种奇特的形状。
  Yánshí jīngguò fēnghuà hòu, xíngchéng le gèzhǒng qítè de xíngzhuàng.
  The rocks are weathered into fantastic forms.
• 沿着这条路往前走，靠近俄克拉荷马州阿卡迪亚小镇，转过一个弯，你会看到一座大谷仓，谷仓是圆形的，外墙是鲜红色的，屋顶是绿色的雪松木瓦，形状像个鸡蛋。据说这是 66 号公路上最多人拍照的景点。
  Just down the road, near the little town of Arcadia, Oklahoma, you come around a bend and spy a big barn - a round one, bright red with a green, egg-shaped cedar-shingle roof. It's said this is the most-photographed spot on all of Route 66.

Sounds the same

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

• 行状(literary) brief obituary; one's past experience; one's past record

Where 形状 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xíng zhuàng correctly.
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