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材料

cái liào

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

材料 (cái liào) means "material/ingredient". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 材料 means

1. (raw) material
2. data
3. (fig.) person who has the potential to do the job

The characters in 材料

• 材cáimaterial; timber; ability
• 料liàomaterial; stuff; grain

Example sentences

• 材料损坏了。
  This material is ruined.
• 材料将被提供。
  Materials will be provided.
• 日本缺乏原材料。
  Rìběn quēfá yuáncáiliào.
  Japan is lacking in raw materials.
• 她为一本书收集材料。
  She is collecting material for a book.
• 今天我要去买些材料。
  I'm going to go buy some materials today.
• 这外套是什么材料作的？
  Zhè wàitào shì shénme cáiliào zuò de?
  What stuff is this jacket made of?

Words starting with 材料

• 材料学cái liào xuématerials science
• 材料科学cái liào kē xuématerials science

Words containing 材料

• 原材料yuán cái liàoraw and semifinished materials
• 生物材料shēng wù cái liàobio-materials
• 复合材料fù hé cái liàocomposite material
• 视听材料shì tīng cái liàoevidence of material seen and heard; oral testimony
• 放射性材料fàng shè xìng cái liàoradioactive material
• 研磨材料yán mó cái liàoabrasive; grinding material
• 裂变材料liè biàn cái liàofissionable material
• 可裂变材料kě liè biàn cái liàofissionable material
• 参考材料cān kǎo cái liàoreference material; source documents

Where 材料 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Shopping & everyday consumption (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cái liào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.