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指示

zhǐ shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Measure word 个

指示 (zhǐ shì) means "to point out". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 指示 means

1. to point out
2. to indicate
3. to instruct
4. directives
5. instructions

The characters in 指示

• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 示shìto show; to reveal

Example sentences

• 我会听从指示。
  I will obey.
• 等到指示灯变成绿色。
  Wait till the light turns green.
• 我只是照着你的指示。
  I just followed your instructions.
• 每个机场都有英文指示。
  Měi gè jīchǎng dōu yǒu Yīngwén zhǐshì.
  Information is given in English at every airport.
• 你跟随他的指示做就行了。
  Nǐ gēnsuí tā de zhǐshì zuò jiù xíng le.
  All you have to do is follow his advice.
• 他们给我们指示这个方向。
  They showed us the way.

Words starting with 指示

• 指示器zhǐ shì qìindicator
• 指示符zhǐ shì fúindicator
• 指示代词zhǐ shì dài cídemonstrative pronoun
• 指示剂zhǐ shì jìindicator

Words containing 指示

• 发出指示fā chū zhǐ shìto issue instructions

Sounds the same

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

• 只是merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however
• 指事ideogram (one of the Six Methods 六书 of forming Chinese characters)…

Where 指示 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhì (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 shì correctly.
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