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指定

zhǐ dìng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

指定 (zhǐ dìng) means "to appoint; to designate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 指定 means

1. to appoint
2. to assign
3. to indicate clearly and with certainty
4. designated

The characters in 指定

• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 定dìngto fix; to set; to make definite; to subscribe to (a newspaper etc)…

Example sentences

• 他在指定时间的五分钟后到了。
  Tā zài zhǐdìng shíjiān de wǔ fēnzhōng hòu dào le.
  He arrived five minutes after the specified time.
• 如果您有关于这份问卷信息的使用条件，请在这里指定。
  Rúguǒ nín yǒuguān yú zhè fèn wènjuàn xìnxī de shǐyòng tiáojiàn, qǐng zài zhèlǐ zhǐdìng.
  Please specify any conditions you have for the use of this information.
• 最近，有些胡同被指定为保护区，以试图保存这方面的中国文化历史。
  Zuì jìn, yǒuxiē hútòng bèi zhǐdìng wèi bǎohùqū, yǐ shìtú bǎocún zhè fāngmiàn de Zhōngguó wénhuà lìshǐ.
  More recently, some hutongs have been designated as protected areas in an attempt to preserve this aspect of Chinese cultural history.

Words containing 指定

• 大学入学指定科目考试Dà xué Rù xué Zhǐ dìng Kē mù Kǎo shìAdvanced Subjects Test, university entrance exam that assesses candidates’ higher level…

Sounds the same

Read zhǐ dìng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 纸锭paper ingots (burned as offerings to the dead)

Where 指定 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhī (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 zhǐ dìng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.