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暴力

bào lì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

暴力 (bào lì) means "violence". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 暴力 means

1. violence
2. force
3. violent

The characters in 暴力

• 暴bàosudden; violent; cruel
• 力lìpower; force; strength

Example sentences

• 汤姆不想暴力。
  Tom didn't want any violence.
• 暴力是社会的癌症。
  Bàolì shì shèhuì de áizhèng.
  Violence is the cancer of our society.
• 她现在很暴力。最好避着点。
  Tā xiànzài hěn bàolì. zuì hǎo bì zhe diǎn.
  She's violent right now. It'd be better to avoid her.
• 暴力电影和电脑游戏助长了年轻人的残暴行为。
  Cruelty in young people is fostered by violent movies and PC games.
• 革命就是一场暴动，一场由一个阶级推翻另一个阶级的暴力行动。
  A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
• 今日在德国，反暴力集会着落到了德国的很多城市，包括周一在汉堡附近一场纵火袭击中3名突厥人被杀害的地方。
  Jīnrì zài Déguó, fǎn bàolì jíhuì zhuóluò dào le Déguó de hěn duō chéngshì, bāokuò Zhōuyī zài hànbǎo fùjìn yī chǎng zònghuǒ xíjī zhōng 3 míng Tūjué rén bèi shāhài de dìfang.
  In Germany today, anti-violence rallies took place in several cities, including one near Hamburg where three Turks were killed in an arson attack on Monday.

Words starting with 暴力

• 暴力法bào lì fǎviolent method; brute force
• 暴力犯罪bào lì fàn zuìviolent crime
• 暴力分拣bào lì fēn jiǎnrough handling of parcels during mail sorting

Words containing 暴力

• 非暴力fēi bào lìnonviolent
• 家庭暴力jiā tíng bào lìdomestic violence
• 冷暴力lěng bào lìnon-physical abuse; emotional abuse; the silent treatment

Sounds the same

Read bào lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 暴利sudden huge profits
• 暴戾ruthless

Where 暴力 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bào–bǎo (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 bào lì correctly.
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