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怡然自得

yí rán zì dé

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

怡然自得 (yí rán zì dé) means "happy and content (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 怡然自得 means

1. happy and content (idiom)

The characters in 怡然自得

• 怡yíharmony; pleased
• 然ráncorrect; right; so
• 自zì(bound form) self; oneself; from; since; naturally; as a matter of course
• 得destructural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to…

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