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权威

quán wēi

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

权威 (quán wēi) means "authority; authoritative; power and prestige". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 权威 means

1. authority
2. authoritative
3. power and prestige

The characters in 权威

• 权quánauthority; power; right
• 威wēipower; might; prestige

Example sentences

• 他是权威的经济学家。
  Tā shì quánwēi de jīngjìxuéjiā.
  He is a great authority on economics.
• 他的教导都包含在道教者看作关于宗教最后的权威的道德经那本深刻的书。
  Tā de jiàodǎo dōu bāohán zài Dàojiào zhě kànzuò guānyú zōngjiào zuì hòu de quánwēi de Dàodéjīng nà běn shēnkè de shū.
  His teachings are incorporated in a profound book Daode Jing which Taoists regard as the final authority and doctrines of the religion.

Words starting with 权威

• 权威性quán wēi xìngauthority; authoritativeness

Words containing 权威

• 有权威yǒu quán wēiauthoritative

Where 权威 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qiū–qǔ (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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