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性命

xìng mìng

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

性命 (xìng mìng) means "life". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 性命 means

1. life

The characters in 性命

• 性xìngnature; character; property
• 命mìnglife; fate; order or command

Example sentences

• 我差点性命不保。
  I could have been killed.
• 你差点性命不保。
  You could have been killed.
• 事故差点让他丢了性命。
  Shìgù chàdiǎn ràng tā diū le xìngmìng.
  The accident almost cost him his life.
• 胜利是用许多人的性命换来的。
  Shènglì shì yòng xǔduō rén de xìngmìng huàn lái de.
  The victory was won at the cost of many lives.
• 在正确使用的情况下，枪可以救人性命。
  Guns can be life-savers when used properly.

Words starting with 性命

• 性命攸关xìng mìng yōu guānvitally important; a matter of life and death

Where 性命 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xìng mìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.