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昂贵

áng guì

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

昂贵 (áng guì) means "expensive, costly". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 昂贵 means

1. expensive
2. costly

The characters in 昂贵

• 昂ángto lift; to raise; to raise one's head
• 贵guìexpensive; (bound form) highly valued; precious; (bound form) noble; of high rank

Example sentences

• 这是非常昂贵的。
  This is very expensive.
• 她买的东西很昂贵。
  Tā mǎi de dōngxi hěn ángguì.
  What she bought was very expensive.
• 生活在日本很昂贵。
  It is expensive to live in Japan.
• 如今肉类价格昂贵。
  Meat is expensive nowadays.
• 她总是买昂贵的衣服。
  Tā zǒngshì mǎi ángguì de yīfu.
  She always buys expensive clothes.
• 他们带着昂贵的戒指。
  Tāmen dài zhe ángguì de jièzhi.
  They are wearing expensive rings.

Where 昂贵 is taught

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