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椭圆

tuǒ yuán

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

椭圆 (tuǒ yuán) means "oval; ellipse; elliptic". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 椭圆 means

1. oval
2. ellipse
3. elliptic

The characters in 椭圆

• 椭tuǒellipse
• 圆yuáncircle; round; circular

Example sentences

• 她有一张椭圆形的脸。
  She has an oval face.
• 由于轨道是椭圆形的，行星和太阳之间的距离不会总是相同。
  Yóuyú guǐdào shì tuǒyuánxíng de, xíngxīng hé tàiyang zhījiān de jùlí bù huì zǒngshì xiāngtóng.
  Since the orbits are elliptical, the planets do not always have the same distance from the Sun.
• 我试图画条纹图形，但是当我画圆的时候我失败了。它看起来像一个椭圆的圆环。
  Wǒ shìtú huà tiáowén túxíng, dànshì dāng wǒ huàyuán de shíhou wǒ shībài le. tā kànqǐlai xiàng yī gè tuǒyuán de yuánhuán.
  I tried to draw a stick figure, but I failed when I started to draw the circle. It looked like a loop-sided oval.

Words starting with 椭圆

• 椭圆形tuǒ yuán xíngoval
• 椭圆机tuǒ yuán jīelliptical machine (exercise)
• 椭圆函数tuǒ yuán hán shù(math) elliptic function
• 椭圆曲线tuǒ yuán qū xiàn(math) elliptic curve
• 椭圆积分tuǒ yuán jī fēn(math) elliptic integral
• 椭圆形办公室Tuǒ yuán xíng Bàn gōng shìOval Office

Where 椭圆 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · tuò–wá (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tuǒ yuán correctly.
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