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普及

pǔ jí

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

普及 (pǔ jí) means "to spread extensively". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 普及 means

1. to spread extensively
2. to generalize
3. widespread
4. popular
5. universal
6. ubiquitous
7. pervasive

The characters in 普及

• 普pǔgeneral; popular; everywhere
• 及jíand; to reach; up to

Example sentences

• 英语已经普及全国。
  Yīngyǔ yǐjīng pǔjí quánguó.
  English has spread all over the country.
• 现今手机非常普及。
  Xiànjīn shǒujī fēicháng pǔjí.
  Nowadays mobile phones are very popular.
• 未来，机器人会像个人电脑一样普及吗？
  Wèilái, jīqìrén huì xiàng gèréndiànnǎo yīyàng pǔjí ma?
  In the future, will robots be as common as personal computers?

Words containing 普及

• 科学普及kē xué pǔ jípopularization of science

Sounds the same

Read pǔ jí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 普级(classification) general; non-specialist
• 普吉Phuket (city in Thailand)

Where 普及 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bào–qī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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