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感叹

gǎn tàn

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

感叹 (gǎn tàn) means "to sigh (with feeling); to lament". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 感叹 means

1. to sigh (with feeling)
2. to lament

The characters in 感叹

• 感gǎnto feel; to move; to touch
• 叹tànto sigh; to exclaim

Example sentences

• 我们感叹这美景。
  Wǒmen gǎntàn zhè měijǐng.
  We admired the beauty of the scenery.
• 感叹号是标点符号。
  Gǎntànhào shì biāodiǎn fúhào.
  An exclamation mark is a punctuation mark.
• “啊！”是一个感叹词。
  "Ah!" is an interjection.

Words starting with 感叹

• 感叹句gǎn tàn jùexclamation; exclamatory phrase
• 感叹号gǎn tàn hàoexclamation point; exclamation mark (!)
• 感叹词gǎn tàn cíinterjection (part of speech); exclamation
• 感叹语gǎn tàn yǔexclamation; expletive

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