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智能

zhì néng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

智能 (zhì néng) means "intelligent". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 智能 means

1. intelligent
2. able
3. smart (phone, system, bomb etc)

The characters in 智能

• 智zhì(literary) wise; wisdom
• 能néngcan; to be able to; might possibly

Example sentences

• AI 代表人工智能。
  A I dàibiǎo réngōngzhìnéng.
  AI stands for artificial intelligence.
• AI是人工智能的略称。
  A I shì réngōngzhìnéng de lüèchēng.
  AI means Artificial Intelligence.
• 以前有人以为火星上有智能生物。
  Yǐqián yǒurén yǐwéi Huǒxīng shàng yǒu zhìnéng shēngwù.
  It was once thought that there was intelligent life on Mars.
• 我上大学的时候，忘了带随身听、相机，只不过是鸡毛蒜皮的小事；可是到了这个年代，忘了带智能手机，麻烦可就大了！
  Wǒ shàng dàxué de shíhou, wàng le dài suíshēntīng, xiàngjī, zhǐbuguò shì jīmáosuànpí de xiǎoshì; kěshì dào le zhège niándài, wàng le dài zhìnéngshǒujī, máfan kějiù dà le!
  When I was in college, I could forget to bring my music player or my camera and still be ok. These days, if I forget my smartphone, I'm screwed!

Words starting with 智能

• 智能卡zhì néng kǎsmart card
• 智能体zhì néng tǐ(computing) intelligent agent; AI agent
• 智能手机zhì néng shǒu jīsmartphone
• 智能手表zhì néng shǒu biǎosmartwatch
• 智能设计zhì néng shè jìintelligent design (religion)
• 智能障碍zhì néng zhàng àiintellectual disability; cognitive disability; learning disability

Words containing 智能

• 人工智能rén gōng zhì néngartificial intelligence (AI)
• 具身智能jù shēn zhì néngembodied AI
• 通用人工智能tōng yòng rén gōng zhì néngartificial general intelligence (AGI)

Where 智能 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhì–zhōng (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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