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恰当

qià dàng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 恰當

恰当 (qià dàng) means "appropriate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 恰当 means

1. appropriate
2. suitable

The characters in 恰当

• 恰qiàexactly; just
• 当dāng(onomatopoeia) dong; ding dong (bell)

Example sentences

• 我在不恰当的时机说错了话, 不断的使我自己和我的朋友陷于尴尬的处境。
  By saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, I kept getting myself and my friends into awkward situations.

Where 恰当 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qiā–qià (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 qià dàng correctly.
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