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恶意

è yì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 惡意

恶意 (è yì) means "malice; evil intention". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 恶意 means

1. malice
2. evil intention

The characters in 恶意

• 恶èevil; fierce; vicious
• 意yì(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…

Example sentences

• 她的话没有恶意。
  Tā dehuà méiyǒu èyì.
  There was no malice intended in what she said.
• 那只兔子有恶意。
  That was an evil bunny.
• 那是一只有恶意的兔子。
  Nàshi yī zhī yǒu èyì de tùzi.
  That was an evil bunny.
• 能解释为愚蠢的，就不要解释为恶意。
  Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
• 我们ACME有限公司，特此宣布，我们将尽我们的力量抵制这种恶意收购。
  Wǒmen A CME yǒuxiàngōngsī, tècǐ xuānbù, wǒmen jiāng jìn wǒmen de lìliang dǐzhì zhèzhǒng èyì shōugòu.
  We, ACME Ltd., hereby announce that we will resist with all our strength this hostile takeover.

Words starting with 恶意

• 恶意中伤è yì zhòng shāngto slander maliciously
• 恶意代码è yì dài mǎmalicious code (e.g. virus); malware
• 恶意软件è yì ruǎn jiànmalware (computing)

Sounds the same

Read è yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 遏抑to suppress; to restrain

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