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极端

jí duān

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 極端

极端 (jí duān) means "extreme". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 极端 means

1. extreme

The characters in 极端

• 极jíextremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost
• 端duān(bound form) tip; end; extremity; (bound form) aspect; facet; (bound form) upright; proper

Example sentences

• 别走极端。
  Don't go to extremes.
• 你的建议有点极端。
  Nǐ de jiànyì yǒudiǎn jíduān.
  Your proposal is a bit extreme.
• 青年人总爱挑战极端。
  Qīngniánrén zǒng ài tiǎozhàn jíduān.
  Young people tend to take things too far.
• 关于教育，他持极端意见。
  He holds an extreme opinion on education.
• 事物都有两面性。极端的人只看得见片面。
  Shìwù dōu yǒu liǎngmiàn xìng. jíduān de rén zhǐ kàndéjiàn piànmiàn.
  Everything has two sides. Fanatics only see one.
• 我不想放弃我的想法，虽然一些想法有点极端。
  Wǒ bù xiǎng fàngqì wǒ de xiǎngfǎ, suīrán yīxiē xiǎngfǎ yǒudiǎn jíduān.
  I don't want to lose my ideas, even though some of them are a bit extreme.

Words starting with 极端

• 极端主义jí duān zhǔ yìextremism
• 极端分子jí duān fèn zǐextremist
• 极端之恶jí duān zhī è(philosophy) radical evil

Where 极端 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jí duān correctly.
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