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机智

jī zhì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 機智

机智 (jī zhì) means "quick-witted; resourceful". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 机智 means

1. quick-witted
2. resourceful

The characters in 机智

• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity
• 智zhì(literary) wise; wisdom

Example sentences

• 他是个机智的人。
  Tā shì gè jīzhì de rén.
  He is a quick-witted man.

Sounds the same

Read jī zhì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 机制mechanism
• 基质base solvent (of chemical compound); stroma (framing biological tissue)
• 几至almost
• 笄蛭a kind of earthworm

Where 机智 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jī (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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