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残疾

cán jí

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 殘疾

残疾 (cán jí) means "disabled, handicapped". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 残疾 means

1. disabled
2. handicapped
3. deformity on a person or animal

The characters in 残疾

• 残cánto destroy; to spoil; to ruin
• 疾jí(bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift; (literary) to hate; to abhor

Example sentences

• 汤姆有残疾。
  Tāngmǔ yǒu cánjí.
  Tom is handicapped.
• 我们会把一部分筹得的款项用来帮助残疾儿童。
  Wǒmen huì bǎ yībùfen chóu de díkuǎn xiàng yònglái bāngzhù cánjí'ér tóng.
  A portion of the proceeds will go to benefit children with disabilities.

Words starting with 残疾

• 残疾人cán jí réndisabled person
• 残疾儿cán jí éra child with a birth defect; a deformed child

Words containing 残疾

• 中国残疾人联合会Zhōng guó Cán jí rén Lián hé huìChina Disabled Persons' Federation

Where 残疾 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Health, Medicine & Wellbeing (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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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cán jí correctly.
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