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憔悴

qiáo cuì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

憔悴 (qiáo cuì) means "wan and sallow; thin and pallid; haggard". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 憔悴 means

1. wan and sallow
2. thin and pallid
3. haggard
4. (of plants) withered

The characters in 憔悴

• 憔qiáoused in 憔悴
• 悴cuìhaggard; sad; downcast

Example sentences

• 你看上去很憔悴。
  Nǐ kànshangqu hěn qiáocuì.
  You look worn out.
• 玛丽早已变得太虚弱憔悴，似乎已经半截入土。
  Mary had become so frail and gaunt that it seemed she already had one foot in the grave.
• 玛丽变得如此虚弱和憔悴，似乎她的一只脚已经踏进了坟墓
  Mǎlì biànde rúcǐ xūruò hé qiáocuì, sìhū tā de yī zhī jiǎo yǐjīng tàjìn le fénmù
  Mary had become so frail and gaunt that it seemed she already had one foot in the grave.
• 玛丽变得如此虚弱和憔悴，似乎她的一只脚已经踏进了坟墓。
  Mary had become so frail and gaunt that it seemed she already had one foot in the grave.

Sounds the same

Read qiáo cuì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 蕉萃variant of 憔悴

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