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描写

miáo xiě

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 描寫

描写 (miáo xiě) means "to describe (literary depiction)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 描写 means

1. to describe; to depict; to portray
2. depiction; portrayal

The characters in 描写

• 描miáoto depict; to trace (a drawing); to copy
• 写xiěto write

Example sentences

• 我打算描写我们的公园和山。
  Wǒ dǎsuàn miáoxiě wǒmen de gōngyuán hé shān.
  I am going to write about our parks and mountains.

Words containing 描写

• 人物描写rén wù miáo xiěportrayal

Where 描写 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Appearance & Physical Description (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read miáo xiě correctly.
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