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标点

biāo diǎn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 標點 Measure word 个

标点 (biāo diǎn) means "punctuation; a punctuation mark; to punctuate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 标点 means

1. punctuation
2. a punctuation mark
3. to punctuate

The characters in 标点

• 标biāomark; sign; label
• 点diǎnto touch briefly; to tap; to mark with a dot; to check off (on a list)…

Example sentences

• 感叹号是标点符号。
  Gǎntànhào shì biāodiǎn fúhào.
  An exclamation mark is a punctuation mark.
• 你得要更注意拼字和标点符号。
  Nǐ děiyào gèng zhùyì pīnzì hé biāodiǎnfúhào.
  You must be more careful about spelling and punctuation.
• 他们说的话，我连标点符号都不信。
  I do not trust a single word that comes out of their mouths.
• "我们吃爷爷吧。" 和"我们吃了吧, 爷爷。" 这两个句子可以证明标点符号能让句子有很大的不同。
  "wǒmen chī yéye ba." hé "wǒmen chī le ba, yéye." zhè liǎng gè jùzi kěyǐ zhèngmíng biāodiǎnfúhào néng ràng jùzi yǒu hěn dà de bù tóng.
  The sentences "Let's eat grandpa." and "Let's eat, grandpa." are only one proof that punctuation can change a lot.

Words starting with 标点

• 标点符号biāo diǎn fú hàopunctuation; a punctuation mark

Where 标点 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Signs, Symbols & Self-Expression (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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