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来往

lái wǎng

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 來往

来往 (lái wǎng) means "to come and go; to have dealings with; to be in relation with". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 来往 means

1. to come and go
2. to have dealings with
3. to be in relation with

The characters in 来往

• 来láito come; (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)…
• 往wǎngto go (in a direction); to; towards

Example sentences

• 你最好不要和他来往。
  Nǐ zuì hǎobù yào hé tā láiwǎng.
  You'd better not keep company with him.
• 我们和很多国家有生意来往。
  Wǒmen hé hěn duōguó jiā yǒu shēngyi láiwǎng.
  We are doing business with many countries.
• 他跟他们干脆地断绝来往了。
  He made a clean break with them.
• 当时正是早高峰，来来往往的行人和车辆很多。
  Dāngshí zhèngshì zǎo gāofēng, lái láiwǎng wǎng de xíngrén hé chēliàng hěn duō.
  It was the morning rush hour, and there were a lot of passing pedestrians and cars.
• 武士团伙来来往往，忙于家族世仇；但绝大多数人继续耕作土地，只要他们不干涉自己村庄社区的独立，人们就对那些妄图统治他们的人漠不关心。
  The warrior bands came and went, prosecuting their family feuds; but the great mass continued to till the soil, taking but little notice of their would-be rulers, so long as they did not interfere with the independence of their village communities.

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