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指纹

zhǐ wén

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 指紋

指纹 (zhǐ wén) means "fingerprint; the arches, loops and whorls on the fingers". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 指纹 means

1. fingerprint
2. the arches, loops and whorls on the fingers

The characters in 指纹

• 指zhǐfinger; to point at or to; to indicate or refer to
• 纹wénline; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc); to tattoo

Example sentences

• 指纹都是独特的。
  Fingerprints are unique.
• 警察找到指纹了吗？
  Jǐngchá zhǎodào zhǐwén le ma?
  Did the police find any fingerprints?
• 你的指纹怎么会在这个玻璃杯上?
  Nǐ de zhǐwén zěnme huì zài zhège bōlibēi shàng?
  How come your fingerprints are on this glass?
• 汤姆小心翼翼地把刀子上的指纹擦掉。
  Tāngmǔ xiǎoxīnyìyì de bǎ dāozi shàng de zhǐwén cādiào.
  Tom carefully wiped his fingerprints off the knife.
• 我看见汤姆从门把手上抹掉他的指纹。
  I saw Tom wiping his fingerprints off the doorknob.
• 那几乎就是完美犯罪：我们到达现场，打开行李箱，杀了那男人并消除指纹，但我们忘了藏尸体。
  Nà jīhū jiùshì wánměi fànzuì: wǒmen dàodá xiànchǎng, dǎkāi xínglixiāng, shā le nà nánrén bìng xiāochú zhǐwén, dàn wǒmen wàng le cáng shītǐ.
  It was almost the perfect crime: we arrived at the scene, opened the trunk, killed the man and cleaned up the prints, but we forgot to hide the body.

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