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授予

shòu yǔ

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

授予 (shòu yǔ) means "to award; to confer". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 授予 means

1. to award
2. to confer

The characters in 授予

• 授shòu(bound form) to confer; to give; (bound form) to teach; to instruct; (literary) to appoint
• 予yǔ(literary) to give

Example sentences

• 他曾经被授予金牌。
  Tā céngjīng bèi shòuyǔ jīnpái.
  He's been awarded a gold medal once.
• 这名士兵被授予紫心勋章。
  This soldier was awarded the Purple Heart.
• 特蕾莎修女被授予诺贝尔奖。
  Tè lěi shā xiūnǚ bèi shòuyǔ Nuòbèi'ěr Jiǎng.
  Mother Teresa was given the Nobel prize.
• 他们在画展上授予了她一等奖。
  Tāmen zài huàzhǎn shàng shòuyǔ le tā yīděngjiǎng.
  They awarded her first prize at the art exhibition.

Sounds the same

Read shòu yǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 授与variant of 授予

Where 授予 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shí–shū (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 shòu yǔ correctly.
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