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树木

shù mù

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 樹木

树木 (shù mù) means "tree". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 树木 means

1. tree

The characters in 树木

• 树shùtree; to cultivate; to set up
• 木mù(bound form) tree; (bound form) wood; unresponsive; numb; wooden

Example sentences

• 树木很稀少。
  Shùmù hěn xīshǎo.
  The trees were very scarce.
• 树木开始抽芽。
  The trees are beginning to bud.
• 池溏的四周长满了树木。
  Chí táng de sìzhōu zhǎngmǎn le shùmù.
  The pond was encircled with trees.
• 树木排出氧气，吸收二氧化碳。
  Shùmù páichū yǎngqì, xīshōu èryǎnghuàtàn.
  Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.
• 他写过关于植物和树木的文章。
  He wrote about plants and trees.
• 科学家研究了树木年轮的数据。
  The scientists looked at tree-ring data.

Words containing 树木

• 十年树木，百年树人shí nián shù mù , bǎi nián shù rén(idiom) it takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people
• 只见树木，不见森林zhǐ jiàn shù mù , bù jiàn sēn líncan't see the wood for the trees

Sounds the same

Read shù mù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 数目amount; number

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