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棱角

léng jiǎo

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

棱角 (léng jiǎo) means "edge and corner; protrusion; sharpness (of a protrusion)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 棱角 means

1. edge and corner
2. protrusion
3. sharpness (of a protrusion)
4. craggy
5. ridge corner

The characters in 棱角

• 棱léngsquare beam; variant of 棱
• 角jiǎoangle; corner; horn

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