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机灵

jī ling

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

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

What 机灵 means

1. alert; quick-witted; lively

The characters in 机灵

• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity
• 灵língquick; alert; efficacious

Example sentences

• 汤姆真是特别机灵。
  Tom is truly very bright.

Words starting with 机灵

• 机灵鬼jī líng guǐ(jocular) clever and quick-witted person

Sounds the same

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

• 机伶variant of 机灵

Where 机灵 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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jī ling correctly.
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