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氧气

yǎng qì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 氧氣

氧气 (yǎng qì) means "oxygen". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 氧气 means

1. oxygen

The characters in 氧气

• 氧yǎngoxygen (chemistry)
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Example sentences

• 爱就像氧气。
  ài jiù xiàng yǎngqì.
  Love is like oxygen.
• 树木排出氧气，吸收二氧化碳。
  Shùmù páichū yǎngqì, xīshōu èryǎnghuàtàn.
  Trees give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide.
• 我们呼吸的空气是由氧气和氮气组成的。
  Wǒmen hūxī de kōngqì shì yóu yǎngqì hé dànqì zǔchéng de.
  The air we breathe consists of oxygen and nitrogen.
• 在没有水和氧气的状态下是不可能存活的。
  Zài méiyǒu shuǐ hé yǎngqì de zhuàngtài xià shì bù kěnéng cúnhuó de.
  It is impossible to live without water and without oxygen.

Where 氧气 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yàng–yáo (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 yǎng qì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.