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情形

qíng xing

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

情形 (qíng xing) means "circumstances". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 情形 means

1. circumstances; situation; state of affairs

The characters in 情形

• 情qíng(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
• 形xíngto appear; to look; form

Example sentences

• 我已经不记得第一次碰到汤姆的情形了。
  I don't remember the first time I met Tom.
• 一个经验丰富的律师会以其它方法来处理这个情形的。
  Yī gè jīngyànfēngfù de lǜshī huì yǐ qítā fāngfǎ lái chǔlǐ zhège qíngxing de.
  A more experienced lawyer would have dealt with the case in a different way.
• 普京对胡锦涛说：“咱们必须帮吉尔吉斯斯坦”……不过那只是在我梦里的情形。
  Pǔjīng duì Hú Jǐntāo shuō:"zánmen bìxū bāng Jí'ěrjísīsītǎn "…… bùguò nà zhǐshì zài wǒ mèng lǐ de qíngxing.
  "We need to help Kyrgyzstan," said Putin to Hu Jintao... in my dream.

Where 情形 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qíng–qīng (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 qíng xing correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.