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架势

jià shi

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 架勢

架势 (jià shi) means "attitude; position (on an issue etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 架势 means

1. attitude
2. position (on an issue etc)

The characters in 架势

• 架jiàto support; frame; rack
• 势shìpower; influence; potential

Words containing 架势

• 拉开架势lā kāi jià shito assume a fighting stance; (fig.) to take the offensive

Sounds the same

Read jià shi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 架式variant of 架势

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jià shi correctly.
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