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情节

qíng jié

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

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

What 情节 means

1. circumstances
2. plot; storyline

The characters in 情节

• 情qíng(bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion; (bound form) situation; condition
• 节jiéjoint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term…

Example sentences

• 这件事情像是电影情节。
  Zhè jiàn shìqing xiàng shì diànyǐng qíngjié.
  That's something like a movie scenario.

Sounds the same

Read qíng jié, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 情结complex (psychology)

Where 情节 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 jié correctly.
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