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求婚

qiú hūn

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

求婚 (qiú hūn) means "to propose marriage". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 求婚 means

1. to propose marriage

The characters in 求婚

• 求qiúto seek; to look for; to request
• 婚hūn(bound form) marriage; wedding; (bound form) to marry

Example sentences

• 他向你求婚了吗？
  Tā xiàng nǐ qiúhūn le ma?
  Did he propose to you?
• 我打算向她求婚。
  I'm going to propose to her.
• 她拒绝了他的求婚。
  Tā jùjué le tā de qiúhūn.
  She turned down his proposal.
• 汤姆向玛丽求婚了。
  Tom asked Mary to marry him.
• 少年决定要向她求婚。
  Shàonián juédìng yào xiàng tā qiúhūn.
  The young man decided to propose to her.
• 他向她求婚求了七次。
  He asked her seven times to marry him.

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