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推翻

tuī fān

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

推翻 (tuī fān) means "to overthrow". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 推翻 means

1. to overthrow

The characters in 推翻

• 推tuīto push; to cut; to refuse
• 翻fānto turn over; to flip over; to overturn

Example sentences

• 反动派被人民所推翻。
  Fǎndòngpài bèi rénmín suǒ tuīfān.
  Reactionary groups were overthrown by the people.
• 预言被实验结果推翻了。
  Yùyán bèi shíyàn jiéguǒ tuīfān le.
  The prediction was falsified by the result.
• 国王的卑劣行为致使人们相信他只是个该被推翻的暴君。
  Guówáng de bēiliè xíngwéi zhìshǐ rénmen xiāngxìn tā zhǐshì gè gāi bèi tuīfān de bàojūn.
  The depravity of the king's deeds lead the people to believe he was nothing more than a tyrant that needed to be overthrown.
• 革命就是一场暴动，一场由一个阶级推翻另一个阶级的暴力行动。
  A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Where 推翻 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tuán–tuō (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 tuī fān correctly.
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