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标本

biāo běn

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

标本 (biāo běn) means "specimen; sample; the root cause and symptoms of a disease". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 标本 means

1. specimen; sample
2. the root cause and symptoms of a disease

The characters in 标本

• 标biāomark; sign; label
• 本běn(bound form) root; stem; (bound form) origin; source; (bound form) one's own; this

Words starting with 标本

• 标本虫biāo běn chóngspider beetle

Words containing 标本

• 正型标本zhèng xíng biāo běnholotype
• 模式标本mó shì biāo běntype specimen (used to define a species)
• 正模标本zhèng mó biāo běnholotype

Where 标本 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · biàn–biāo (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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