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新陈代谢

xīn chén dài xiè

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 新陳代謝

新陈代谢 (xīn chén dài xiè) means "metabolism (biology); the new replaces the old (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 新陈代谢 means

1. metabolism (biology)
2. the new replaces the old (idiom)

The characters in 新陈代谢

• 新xīnnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
• 陈chén(bound form) to lay out; to exhibit; to display; (bound form) to narrate; to state…
• 代dàito be a substitute for; to act on behalf of; to replace; to substitute; generation…
• 谢xièto thank; (bound form) to apologize; (bound form) to decline; to refuse

Where 新陈代谢 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.

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