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携带

xié dài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 攜帶

携带 (xié dài) means "to carry (on one's person)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 携带 means

1. to carry (on one's person)
2. to support (old)
3. Taiwan pr. xī dài

The characters in 携带

• 携xiéto carry; to take along; to bring along
• 带dàiband; belt; girdle

Example sentences

• 携带武器是违法的。
  Xiédài wǔqì shì wéifǎ de.
  It's against the law to carry weapons.
• 这个箱子太重了无法携带。
  Zhège xiāngzi tài zhòng le wúfǎ xiédài.
  The box is too heavy to carry.
• 这个箱子太笨重了无法携带。
  Zhège xiāngzi tài bènzhòng le wúfǎ xiédài.
  This box is too bulky to carry.
• 汤姆想要个小得易于携带的电脑。
  Tāngmǔ xiǎngyào gè xiǎo de yìyú xiédài de diànnǎo.
  Tom wants a computer small enough to easily carry.
• 这电子辞典的好处就是便于携带。
  Zhè diànzǐ cídiǎn de hǎochu jiùshì biànyú xiédài.
  The good thing about this electronic dictionary is that it's easy to carry.
• 这架飞机一次可以携带40名乘客。
  This airplane is capable of carrying 40 passengers at a time.

Words starting with 携带

• 携带者xié dài zhě(medicine) carrier (of a recessive gene, virus etc)

Sounds the same

Read xié dài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鞋带shoelace
• 挟带to carry along; to carry on one's person; to carry secretly

Where 携带 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiè–xīn (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 xié dài correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.