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抗议

kàng yì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 抗議

抗议 (kàng yì) means "to protest; protest". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 抗议 means

1. to protest
2. protest

The characters in 抗议

• 抗kàngto resist; to fight; to defy
• 议yìto comment on; to discuss; to suggest

Example sentences

• 抗议。
  Resist.
• 大家去抗议！
  Everybody is protesting!
• 人们在香港抗议。
  Rénmen zài Xiānggǎng kàngyì.
  People are protesting in Hong Kong.
• 她们在抗议啥呀？
  What are they protesting against?
• 美国的工人开始抗议。
  Měiguó de gōngrén kāishǐ kàngyì.
  American workers began to protest.
• 狗停下了脚步，好像在抗议。
  The dog stopped walking, as if to complain.

Words starting with 抗议

• 抗议者kàng yì zhěprotester

Words containing 抗议

• 绝食抗议jué shí kàng yìhunger strike
• 静坐抗议jìng zuò kàng yìsit-in protest
• 静坐抗议示威jìng zuò kàng yì shì wēisit-in protest demonstration

Sounds the same

Read kàng yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 抗疫to combat an epidemic

Where 抗议 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Conflict, Anger & Frustration (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read kàng yì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.