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性情

xìng qíng

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

性情 (xìng qíng) means "nature; temperament". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 性情 means

1. nature
2. temperament

The characters in 性情

• 性xìngnature; character; property
• 情qíng(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition

Example sentences

• 他的性情古怪。
  Tā de xìngqíng gǔguài.
  He's a strange character.
• 值得庆幸的是他双亲性情非常温和。
  Zhíde qìngxìng de shì tā shuāngqīn xìngqíng fēicháng wēnhé.
  It's lucky that his parents are so equable.
• 我年轻，而且——既然你是我邻居——你也知道我的性情。
  I am young; and, as I have been your neighbour, you know my character.

Where 性情 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 qíng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.