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新郎

xīn láng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

新郎 (xīn láng) means "bridegroom". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 新郎 means

1. bridegroom; groom

The characters in 新郎

• 新xīnnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
• 郎láng(arch.) minister; official; noun prefix denoting function or status

Example sentences

• 请诸位斟满酒，为新郎和新娘干杯！
  Qǐng zhūwèi zhēn mǎn jiǔ, wèi xīnláng hé xīnniáng gānbēi!
  Please charge your glasses and drink a toast to the bride and groom!
• 发给好朋友的请帖上有新郎新娘合影的照片。
  There's a photo of the bride and groom together on the invitation sent to friends.
• 新郎现在在一家公司工作，新娘是我们的老师。
  Xīnláng xiànzài zài yījiā gōngsī gōngzuò, xīnniáng shì wǒmen de lǎoshī.
  The groom works for a company now, and the bride is our teacher.
• 最近我参加了一个中国朋友的婚礼，新郎和新娘是大学同学，都是中文系毕业的，他们已经恋爱五年了。
  Zuì jìn wǒ cānjiā le yī gèzhōng guó péngyou de hūnlǐ, xīnláng hé xīnniáng shì dàxué tóngxué, dōu shì Zhōngwén jì bìyè de, tāmen yǐjīng liàn'ài wǔ nián le.
  Recently I attended the wedding of a Chinese friend. The bride and groom had been classmates at university, and both graduated from the Chinese faculty. They've already been together for five years.

Words starting with 新郎

• 新郎官xīn láng guānbridegroom; groom
• 新郎倌xīn láng guānbridegroom; groom

Where 新郎 is taught

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