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情况

qíng kuàng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 情況 Measure word 种

情况 (qíng kuàng) means "circumstances; state of affairs; situation". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 情况 means

1. circumstances; state of affairs; situation

The characters in 情况

• 情qíng(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
• 况kuàngmoreover; situation

Example sentences

• 这得看情况。
  It depends on the context.
• 这要看情况。
  It depends on the context.
• 情况很棘手。
  The situation is difficult.
• 情况非常严重。
  The situation is very serious.
• 经济情况恶化。
  The economic situation grew worse.
• 情况正在变糟。
  The situation is deteriorating.

Words containing 情况

• 看情况kàn qíng kuàngdepending on the situation
• 实际情况shí jì qíng kuàngactual circumstances; the real situation; reality
• 现实情况xiàn shí qíng kuàngcurrent state; current situation
• 经济情况jīng jì qíng kuàngeconomic situation; one's socio-economic status

Where 情况 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Problems & solutions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qíng kuàng correctly.
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