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循环

xún huán

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

循环 (xún huán) means "to cycle". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 循环 means

1. to cycle
2. to circulate
3. circle
4. loop

The characters in 循环

• 循xún(bound form) to follow; to act in accordance with
• 环huánring; hoop; loop

Example sentences

• 回答把我们带入了一个恶性循环。
  Huídá bǎ wǒmen dài rù le yī gè èxìngxúnhuán.
  The answer leads us to a vicious circle.
• 我们中的许多人多多少少都经历过这样的循环：面对着浏览器，习惯性地Ctrl-T打开一个新的标签页，敲下常去网址的首字母然后回车，只为了看看有没有啥新鲜事发生。
  Wǒmen zhōng de xǔduō rén duōduōshǎoshǎo dōu jīnglì guo zhèyàng de xúnhuán: miànduì zhe liúlǎnqì, xíguànxìng de Ctrl- T dǎkāi yī gè xīn de biāoqiānyè, qiāo xià cháng qù wǎngzhǐ de shǒuzìmǔ ránhòu huíchē, zhǐ wèile kànkan yǒuméiyǒu shá xīnxiān shì fāshēng.
  Most of us have, to some extent, experienced being caught in a cycle like this one: Facing the browser, you hit, like you always do, Ctrl-T to open a new tab, type in the first letter of the website you always visit, and hit "enter"... just to see if anything new has happened.

Words starting with 循环

• 循环性xún huán xìngcyclical; cyclic; circulatory
• 循环节xún huán jiérecurring section of a rational decimal
• 循环赛xún huán sàiround-robin tournament
• 循环使用xún huán shǐ yòngrecycle; to use in cyclic order
• 循环小数xún huán xiǎo shùrecurring decimal
• 循环系统xún huán xì tǒngcirculatory system
• 循环经济xún huán jīng jìcircular economy
• 循环论证xún huán lùn zhèngcircular argument; logical error consisting of begging the question…

Words containing 循环

• 恶性循环è xìng xún huánvicious circle
• 血液循环xuè yè xún huánblood circulation
• 死循环sǐ xún huánendless loop
• 燃料循环rán liào xún huánfuel cycle
• 良性循环liáng xìng xún huánvirtuous cycle (i.e. positive feedback loop)
• 郎肯循环láng kěn xún huánRankine cycle (engineering)
• 冠脉循环guān mài xún huáncoronary circulation
• 柠檬酸循环níng méng suān xún huáncitric acid cycle; Krebs cycle; tricarboxylic acid cycle

Where 循环 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xuǎn–yā (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 xún huán correctly.
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