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性别

xìng bié

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 性別

性别 (xìng bié) means "gender / sex". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 性别 means

1. sex; gender

The characters in 性别

• 性xìngnature; character; property
• 别biéto leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish…

Example sentences

• 我是跨性别
  I'm transgender.
• 玛丽是跨性别。
  Mary is transgender.
• 你的性别是什么？
  What is your gender?
• 嫌疑犯目前性别不明。
  Xiányífàn mùqián xìngbié bù míng.
  The suspect's gender is currently unknown.
• 亚历克斯是非二元性别。
  Yàlìkèsī shì fēi èryuán xìngbié.
  Alex is nonbinary.
• 这几件睡衣是不分性别的。
  These are unisex pyjamas.

Words starting with 性别

• 性别比xìng bié bǐsex ratio
• 性别歧视xìng bié qí shìsex discrimination; sexism
• 性别角色xìng bié jué sègender role
• 性别认同障碍xìng bié rèn tóng zhàng àigender identity disorder (GID); gender dysphoria

Words containing 性别

• 跨性别kuà xìng biétransgender
• 顺性别shùn xìng biécisgender

Where 性别 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Social relationships & family (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xìng bié correctly.
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