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抗生素

kàng shēng sù

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word

抗生素 (kàng shēng sù) means "antibiotic". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 抗生素 means

1. antibiotic

The characters in 抗生素

• 抗kàngto resist; to fight; to defy
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 素sùraw silk; white; plain, unadorned

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