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水平

shuǐ píng

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

水平 (shuǐ píng) means "level (of achievement etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 水平 means

1. horizontal; level
2. a standard; a level (of ability, development etc)

The characters in 水平

• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 平píngflat; level; smooth; to make even; to level; equal; on the same level

Example sentences

• 条纹是水平的。
  Tiáowén shì shuǐpíng de.
  The stripes were horizontal.
• 我英文水平中等。
  My level in English is intermediate.
• 我的法语水平不高。
  I'm weak in French.
• 我的英语水平一般。
  My English is so-so.
• 我的成绩高于平均水平。
  Wǒ de chéngjì gāoyú píngjūn shuǐpíng.
  My grades are above average.
• 他的西语水平还应该提高。
  Tā de xīyǔ shuǐpíng hái yīnggāi tígāo.
  His level of Spanish should still be improved.

Words starting with 水平

• 水平面shuǐ píng miànhorizontal plane; level surface; water level
• 水平仪shuǐ píng yílevel (device to determine horizontal); spirit level; surveyor's level
• 水平尺shuǐ píng chǐspirit level
• 水平轴shuǐ píng zhóuhorizontal shaft; horizontal axis (math.)
• 水平尾翼shuǐ píng wěi yì(aviation) tailplane; horizontal stabilizer

Words containing 水平

• 没水平méi shuǐ píngdisgraceful; poor quality; substandard
• 先进水平xiān jìn shuǐ píngadvanced level
• 学术水平xué shù shuǐ píngacademic level
• 文化水平wén huà shuǐ píngeducational level
• 生活水平shēng huó shuǐ píngliving standards
• 置信水平zhì xìn shuǐ píngconfidence level (math.)
• 城镇化水平chéng zhèn huà shuǐ píngurbanization level (of a city or town)
• 汉语水平考试Hàn yǔ Shuǐ píng Kǎo shìHSK (Chinese Proficiency Test)
• 普通话水平测试Pǔ tōng huà Shuǐ píng Cè shìPutonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for…

Where 水平 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Achievement, Change & Progress (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shuǐ píng correctly.
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