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气压

qì yā

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

气压 (qì yā) means "atmospheric pressure; barometric pressure". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 气压 means

1. atmospheric pressure
2. barometric pressure

The characters in 气压

• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather
• 压yāto press; to push down; to keep under (control)

Example sentences

• 金星的大气压力非常高。
  Jīnxīng de dàqìyālì fēicháng gāo.
  Venus' atmospheric pressure is very high.
• 气压计下降了 - 要下雨了。
  Qìyājì xiàjiàng le - yào xiàyǔ le.
  The barometer is falling. It is going to rain.
• 你能检查一下这个轮胎的气压吗？
  Nǐ néng jiǎnchá yīxià zhège lúntāi de qìyā ma?
  Could you check the tire pressure?
• 也许这是低气压，这意味着你在飞机上更容易喝醉。
  Yěxǔ zhè shì dīqìyā, zhè yìwèizhe nǐ zài fēijī shàng gèng róngyì hēzuì.
  Maybe it's the low air pressure that means you get drunk more easily on planes.
• 人们担心在强劲的冬季气压模式下，降雪量会增加。
  There's a fear that the snow will strengthen amid the strong winter pressure pattern.
• 气压表是一种用来测量大气压力的仪器，主要用于研究气候和测量高度。
  The barometer is an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure, especially used to study climate and to determine altitudes.

Words starting with 气压

• 气压表qì yā biǎobarometer
• 气压计qì yā jìbarometer

Words containing 气压

• 低气压dī qì yālow pressure; depression (meteorology)
• 大气压dà qì yāatmospheric pressure
• 地面气压dì miàn qì yāground pressure
• 大气压力dà qì yā lìatmospheric pressure
• 大气压强dà qì yā qiángatmospheric pressure

Where 气压 is taught

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

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