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惯性

guàn xìng

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

惯性 (guàn xìng) means "(physics) inertia; (fig.) force of habit; tendency to do things in the accustomed way". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 惯性 means

1. physicsinertia
2. (fig.) force of habit
3. tendency to do things in the accustomed way
4. habitual

The characters in 惯性

• 惯guànaccustomed to; used to; indulge
• 性xìngnature; character; property

Example sentences

• 他习惯性地将钥匙放在了桌子上。
  Tā xíguànxìng de jiāng yàoshi fàng zài le zhuōzi shàng.
  He put the key on the table as usual.
• 我们中的许多人多多少少都经历过这样的循环：面对着浏览器，习惯性地Ctrl-T打开一个新的标签页，敲下常去网址的首字母然后回车，只为了看看有没有啥新鲜事发生。
  Wǒmen zhōng de xǔduō rén duōduōshǎoshǎo dōu jīnglì guo zhèyàng de xúnhuán: miànduì zhe liúlǎnqì, xíguànxìng de Ctrl- T dǎkāi yī gè xīn de biāoqiānyè, qiāo xià cháng qù wǎngzhǐ de shǒuzìmǔ ránhòu huíchē, zhǐ wèile kànkan yǒuméiyǒu shá xīnxiān shì fāshēng.
  Most of us have, to some extent, experienced being caught in a cycle like this one: Facing the browser, you hit, like you always do, Ctrl-T to open a new tab, type in the first letter of the website you always visit, and hit "enter"... just to see if anything new has happened.

Words starting with 惯性

• 惯性系guàn xìng xìinertial system; inertial frame (mechanics)

Words containing 惯性

• 习惯性xí guàn xìngcustomary

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