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总而言之

zǒng ér yán zhī

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 總而言之

总而言之 (zǒng ér yán zhī) means "in short; in a word; in brief". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 总而言之 means

1. in short
2. in a word
3. in brief

The characters in 总而言之

• 总zǒng(bound form) general; overall; to sum up; in every case; always; invariably
• 而érand; as well as; and so
• 言yánwords; speech; to say
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her

Example sentences

• 总而言之，生命是很短的。
  Zǒng'éryánzhī, shēngmìng shì hěn duǎn de.
  In a word, life is short.

Where 总而言之 is taught

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

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