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歧视

qí shì

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

歧视 (qí shì) means "to discriminate against; discrimination". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 歧视 means

1. to discriminate against
2. discrimination

The characters in 歧视

• 歧qídivergent; side road
• 视shì(literary, or bound form) to look at

Example sentences

• 我不歧视人。
  Wǒ bù qíshì rén.
  I don't discriminate.
• 他反对种族歧视。
  Tā fǎnduì zhǒngzúqíshì.
  He fought against racial discrimination.
• 因为人的种族而歧视他们是一种错误。
  Yīnwèi rén de zhǒngzú ér qíshì tāmen shì yīzhǒng cuòwù.
  Discriminating against people because of their race is a mistake.
• 看起来不男不女的人常常受到议论和歧视。
  Androgynous-looking people are often the subject of discussion and discrimination.
• 我不是这个意思。性别歧视，女性歧视，不管怎样，男人和女人都是不同的。
  Wǒ bù shì zhège yìsi. Xìngbié qíshì, nǚxìng qíshì, bù guǎn zěnyàng, nánrén hé nǚrén dōu shì bù tóng de.
  That's not what I mean. Sex discrimination, female discrimination, whatever, men and women are just different.
• 自从执行长无意被麦克风录到说出种族歧视言论，整个公关团队就一直在忙着善后。
  Ever since the CEO was caught saying racial slurs on a hot mic, the whole PR team has been doing damage control.

Words containing 歧视

• 种族歧视zhǒng zú qí shìracial discrimination; racism
• 性别歧视xìng bié qí shìsex discrimination; sexism
• 消除对妇女一切形式歧视公约Xiāo chú duì Fù nǚ Yī qiè Xíng shì Qí shì Gōng yuēConvention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Sounds the same

Read qí shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 骑士knight; cavalier; (Taiwan) bike rider (scooter, bicycle etc)
• 奇事marvel
• 奇士odd person; an eccentric
• 岐视variant of 歧视

Where 歧视 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qǐ–qí (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 qí shì correctly.
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