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星星

xīng xing

HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

星星 (xīng xing) means "(coll.) a star; the stars in the sky". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 星星 means

1. colloquiala star; the stars in the sky

The characters in 星星

• 星xīngstar; heavenly body; satellite
• 星xīngstar; heavenly body; satellite

Example sentences

• 星星太遥远了。
  The stars are too far away.
• 星星没有被看到。
  Not a star was to be seen.
• 当时天上有星星吗？
  Were there any stars in the sky?
• 这是本关于星星的书。
  Zhè shì běn guānyú xīngxing de shū.
  This is a book about stars.
• 无数星星在天上闪烁。
  Wúshù xīngxing zài tiānshàng shǎnshuò.
  Countless stars were twinkling in the sky.
• 没看到任何一颗星星。
  Not a star was to be seen.

Words starting with 星星

• 星星之火xīng xing zhī huǒa single spark (idiom); an insignificant cause can have a massive effect
• 星星之火，可以燎原xīng xing zhī huǒ , kě yǐ liáo yuána single spark can start a huge blaze (idiom); an insignificant cause can have a massive…

Words containing 星星

• 盼星星盼月亮pàn xīng xīng pàn yuè liàngto wish for the stars and the moon; to have unreal expectations
• 零零星星líng líng xīng xīngodd; piecemeal; fragmentary

Sounds the same

Read xīng xing, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 猩猩orangutan; (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin

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