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挥霍

huī huò

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 揮霍

挥霍 (huī huò) means "to squander money; extravagant; prodigal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 挥霍 means

1. to squander money
2. extravagant
3. prodigal
4. free and easy
5. agile

The characters in 挥霍

• 挥huīto wave; to brandish; to command
• 霍huò(literary) suddenly

Words starting with 挥霍

• 挥霍无度huī huò wú dù(idiom) to squander recklessly; to spend extravagantly

Where 挥霍 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · huáng–huī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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