Dictionary › 抄袭

抄袭

chāo xí

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

抄袭 (chāo xí) means "to plagiarize; to copy; to attack the flank or rear of an enemy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 抄袭 means

1. to plagiarize
2. to copy
3. to attack the flank or rear of an enemy

The characters in 抄袭

• 抄chāoto make a copy; to plagiarize; to search and seize
• 袭xí(bound form) to raid; to attack; (bound form) to continue the pattern; to perpetuate…

Sounds the same

Read chāo xí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 剿袭variant of 抄袭

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chāo xí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.