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忙活

máng huo

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

忙活 (máng huo) means "to be really busy; pressing business". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 忙活 means

1. to be really busy
2. pressing business

The characters in 忙活

• 忙mángbusy; hurriedly; to hurry
• 活huóto live; alive; living

Example sentences

• 我们可能要白忙活一场了。
  All that we have done may go to waste.

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read máng huo correctly.
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