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投降

tóu xiáng

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

投降 (tóu xiáng) means "to surrender; surrender". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 投降 means

1. to surrender

The characters in 投降

• 投tóuto throw (sth in a specific direction: ball, javelin, grenade etc); to cast (a ballot)…
• 降jiàngto drop; to fall; to come down

Example sentences

• 我们投降。
  We surrender.
• 驻军被迫投降。
  Zhùjūn bèipò tóuxiáng.
  The garrison was forced to surrender.
• 限你三分钟内投降
  Xiàn nǐ sānfēn zhōng nèi tóuxiáng
  You have three minutes to surrender.
• 我宁死也不投降。
  I would rather die than surrender.
• 萨米只有投降一途
  Sami had no choice but to surrender.
• 如果汤姆不投降，就开枪
  Rúguǒ tāng mǔ bù tóuxiáng, jiù kāiqiāng
  If Tom doesn't surrender, shoot him.

Words containing 投降

• 无条件投降wú tiáo jiàn tóu xiángunconditional surrender

Where 投降 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.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tóu xiáng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.