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性质

xìng zhì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 性質 Measure word 个

性质 (xìng zhì) means "nature; character (of a thing)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 性质 means

1. nature
2. characteristic

The characters in 性质

• 性xìngnature; character; property
• 质zhìcharacter; nature; quality

Words starting with 性质

• 性质命题xìng zhì mìng tícategorical proposition (logic)

Words containing 性质

• 化学性质huà xué xìng zhìchemical property
• 物理性质wù lǐ xìng zhìphysical property

Sounds the same

Read xìng zhì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 兴致mood; spirits; interest

Where 性质 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Talent, Personnel & Humanity (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xìng zhì correctly.
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