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心血

xīn xuè

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

心血 (xīn xuè) means "heart's blood; expenditure (for some project); meticulous care". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 心血 means

1. heart's blood
2. expenditure (for some project)
3. meticulous care

The characters in 心血

• 心xīnheart; mind; intention
• 血xuèblood; colloquial pr. xiě

Example sentences

• 我们已经花了五个月的心血在这上面了。别这时候搞砸了。
  Wǒmen yǐjīng huā le wǔ gè yuè de xīnxuè zài zhè shàngmian le. Bié zhè shíhòu gǎo zá le.
  We've been working on this for five months. Don't fuck it up now.

Words starting with 心血

• 心血来潮xīn xuè lái cháoto be prompted by a sudden impulse; carried away by a whim; to have a brainstorm
• 心血管xīn xuè guǎn(anatomy) heart and blood vessels; cardiovascular
• 心血管疾病xīn xuè guǎn jí bìngcardiovascular disease

Where 心血 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xīn–xìn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xīn xuè correctly.
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