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拥抱

yōng bào

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 擁抱

拥抱 (yōng bào) means "to embrace". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 拥抱 means

1. to embrace
2. to hug

The characters in 拥抱

• 拥yōngto hold in one's arms; to embrace; to surround; to gather around; to throng; to swarm
• 抱bàoto hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug

Example sentences

• 他们拥抱。
  They hugged.
• 她想拥抱他。
  She wants to hug him.
• 汤姆拥抱了玛丽。
  Tom hugged Mary.
• 你真的拥抱汤姆？
  Did you really hug Tom?
• 汤姆拥抱了父母。
  Tom hugged his parents.
• 汤姆尝试拥抱玛丽。
  Tom tried to hug Mary.

Where 拥抱 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Heroes, Handsome & Nutrition (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 yōng bào correctly.
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