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时髦

shí máo

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 時髦

时髦 (shí máo) means "in vogue; fashionable". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 时髦 means

1. in vogue
2. fashionable

The characters in 时髦

• 时shío'clock; time; when
• 髦máobang (hair); fashionable; mane

Example sentences

• 赶上时髦
  Gǎnshàng shímáo
  Get with it.
• 不要赶时髦。
  Bù yào gǎnshímáo.
  Don't follow the trends.
• 短裙不时髦了。
  The short skirt is out of fashion.
• 虽然时髦一点，但是价钱太大！
  Suīrán shímáo yīdiǎn, dànshì jiàqian tài dà!
  It's sort of fashionable, but the price is too high!
• 你可能认为那些鞋子很时髦, 但是他们不是。
  Nǐ kěnéng rènwéi nàxiē xiézi hěn shímáo, dànshì tāmen bù shì.
  You may think those shoes are in fashion, but they aren't.
• 若老师要筹划一趟假期旅行或类似需要比价、核算费用的事，他便会借助学生的本领。有时，妻子想要一个新果盘，或丈夫想要一把新裁纸刀；许多人有儿子需要听睡前短故事，或有女儿的洋娃娃必须穿上最时髦的衣裳；凡此种种，老师一律让学生替他代劳。
  If the teacher is to plan out a vacation or something similar requiring one to compare prices and figure out what it would cost, it is the pupils' skills he would exploit. Sometimes, the wife may be wishing for a new fruit bowl, or perhaps the husband is looking for a new letter opener. Many have sons that require a short bedside story or daughters with dolls that must be clad in clothing of utmost fashionability; all this, the teacher makes the pupils make for him.

Words containing 时髦

• 赶时髦gǎn shí máoto keep up with the latest fashion

Where 时髦 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time Periods & Schedules (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 shí máo correctly.
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