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明显

míng xiǎn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 明顯

明显 (míng xiǎn) means "obvious, clear". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 明显 means

1. clear
2. distinct
3. obvious

The characters in 明显

• 明míngbright; opposite: dark 暗; (of meaning) clear
• 显xiǎnto make visible; to reveal; prominent

Example sentences

• 很明显。
  It's obvious.
• 那很明显。
  That's quite obvious.
• 那非常明显。
  It's as clear as day.
• 好像很明显。
  It seems pretty obvious.
• 他明显在撒谎。
  He is lying through his teeth.
• 他明显撒谎了。
  He clearly lied.

Where 明显 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Clarity & Certainty (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 míng xiǎn correctly.
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