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扩散

kuò sàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 擴散

扩散 (kuò sàn) means "to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 扩散 means

1. to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse

The characters in 扩散

• 扩kuòto enlarge
• 散sànto scatter; to break up (a meeting etc); to disperse

Example sentences

• 癌细胞已经扩散到她的胃。
  áixìbāo yǐjīng kuòsàn dào tā de wèi.
  The cancer has spread to her stomach.

Words starting with 扩散

• 扩散周知kuò sàn zhōu zhīto let everyone know; spread the word!

Words containing 扩散

• 核扩散hé kuò sànnuclear proliferation
• 核不扩散hé bù kuò sànnuclear nonproliferation
• 气体扩散qì tǐ kuò sàngaseous diffusion
• 不扩散核武器条约Bù Kuò sàn Hé wǔ qì Tiáo yuēTreaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Where 扩散 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · kuàng–kuò (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kuò sàn correctly.
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