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征服

zhēng fú

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

征服 (zhēng fú) means "to conquer; to subdue; to vanquish". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 征服 means

1. to conquer
2. to subdue
3. to vanquish

The characters in 征服

• 征zhēngjourney; trip; expedition
• 服fúclothes; dress; garment

Example sentences

• 他被数字征服了。
  Tā bèi shùzì zhēngfú le.
  He was overcome by numbers.
• 我来，我见，我征服。
  I came, I saw, I conquered.
• 魅力冲击视觉，美德征服心灵。
  Mèilì chōngjī shìjué, měidé zhēngfú xīnlíng.
  Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
• 你知道是谁第一个征服珠穆朗玛峰的吗?
  Nǐ zhīdào shì shéi dìyī gè zhēngfú Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng de ma?
  Do you know who conquered Mt. Everest first?
• 被征服的人永远是错的。历史只记得他们的失败。
  Those who are defeated are always wrong. History only remembers their failure.
• 演说家为了征服他的听众，不惜使用他在交流课上学到的修辞技巧。
  Yǎnshuō jiā wèile zhēngfú tā de tīngzhòng, bù xī shǐyòng tā zài jiāoliú kè shàngxué dào de xiūcí jìqiǎo.
  To win his audience, the speaker resorted to using rhetorical techniques he learned from his communication courses.

Words starting with 征服

• 征服者zhēng fú zhěconqueror

Words containing 征服

• 诺曼征服Nuò màn Zhēng fúthe Norman conquest of England (1066)

Where 征服 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhèng–zhēng (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 zhēng fú correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.