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投机

tóu jī

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

投机 (tóu jī) means "to speculate (on financial markets); opportunistic; congenial". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 投机 means

1. congenial; agreeable
2. to speculate; to profiteer

The characters in 投机

• 投tóuto throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc); to cast (a ballot)…
• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity

Words starting with 投机

• 投机取巧tóu jī qǔ qiǎoto gain advantage by any means, fair or foul; to be opportunistic; to be full of tricks
• 投机者tóu jī zhěspeculator
• 投机倒把tóu jī dǎo bǎto engage in speculation and profiteering
• 投机买卖tóu jī mǎi màito engage in speculative trading

Words containing 投机

• 话不投机huà bù tóu jī(idiom) not on the same wavelength; unable to have a congenial conversation…
• 话不投机半句多huà bù tóu jī bàn jù duō(idiom) when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion

Where 投机 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tǒng–tǔ (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.
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