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惊喜

jīng xǐ

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 驚喜

惊喜 (jīng xǐ) means "nice surprise; to be pleasantly surprised". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 惊喜 means

1. nice surprise
2. to be pleasantly surprised

The characters in 惊喜

• 惊jīngto startle; to be frightened; to be scared
• 喜xǐto be fond of; to like; to enjoy

Example sentences

• 太惊喜了!
  What a surprise!
• 真是个惊喜！
  This really is a nice surprise!
• 这是一个惊喜。
  It's a surprise.
• 我想给她一个惊喜。
  Wǒ xiǎng gěi tā yī gè jīngxǐ.
  I wanted to surprise her.
• 我没想要给你惊喜。
  I didn't mean to surprise you.
• 汤姆想留它作惊喜。
  Tom wanted this to be a surprise.

Words starting with 惊喜

• 惊喜若狂jīng xǐ ruò kuángpleasantly surprised like mad (idiom); capering madly with joy…

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jīng xǐ correctly.
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