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性格

xìng gé

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Measure word 个

性格 (xìng gé) means "personality / character". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 性格 means

1. nature
2. disposition
3. temperament
4. character

The characters in 性格

• 性xìngnature; character; property
• 格gésquare; lattice; grid; frame; compartment; partition; slot (within a larger unit)…

Example sentences

• 他的性格很消极。
  Tā de xìnggé hěn xiāojí.
  He has a passive character.
• 他有一个很好的性格。
  He has a wonderful personality.
• 她的性格很像她母亲。
  She is her mother's match in character.
• 汤姆具有诙谐的性格。
  Tom has quite a quirky personality.
• 她是一个性格坚强的女人。
  Tā shì yī gè xìnggé jiānqiáng de nǚrén.
  She's a woman of strong character.
• 我很喜欢你为人设想的性格。
  Wǒ hěn xǐhuan nǐ wéirén shèxiǎng de xìnggé.
  I love how you think of other people's needs before your own.

Words starting with 性格

• 性格不合xìng gé bù héincompatibility of temperament

Words containing 性格

• 中向性格zhōng xiàng xìng géambiversion; ambiverted

Where 性格 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personality & character traits (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 gé correctly.
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