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忠诚

zhōng chéng

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

忠诚 (zhōng chéng) means "devoted; loyal; fidelity". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 忠诚 means

1. devoted
2. loyal
3. fidelity
4. loyalty

The characters in 忠诚

• 忠zhōngloyal; devoted; faithful
• 诚chéng(bound form) sincere; authentic; (literary) really; truly

Example sentences

• 翻译就像一个女人。她漂亮就会不忠诚；她忠诚就肯定不会漂亮。
  Fānyì jiù xiàng yī gè nǚrén. tā piàoliang jiù huì bù zhōngchéng; tā zhōngchéng jiù kěndìng bù huì piàoliang.
  Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

Sounds the same

Read zhōng chéng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 中程medium-range

Where 忠诚 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhì–zhōng (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 zhōng chéng correctly.
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