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新鲜

xīn xiān

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 新鮮

新鲜 (xīn xiān) means "fresh (experience, food etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 新鲜 means

1. fresh (experience, food etc)
2. freshness
3. novel
4. uncommon

The characters in 新鲜

• 新xīnnew; newly; meso- (chemistry)
• 鲜xiānfresh; bright (in color); delicious

Example sentences

• 面包不新鲜。
  The bread is not fresh.
• 这些柠檬很新鲜
  Zhèxiē níngméng hěn xīnxiān
  These lemons are fresh.
• 没什么新鲜事。
  Nothing new.
• 这些都很新鲜。
  These are fresh.
• 这玉米很新鲜。
  This corn is fresh.
• 看，有新鲜事。
  Look, something new.

Where 新鲜 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Qualities, Adverbs & Degree Words (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xīn xiān correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.