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沙漠

shā mò

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 个

沙漠 (shā mò) means "desert". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 沙漠 means

1. desert

The characters in 沙漠

• 沙shāgranule; hoarse; raspy
• 漠mòdesert; unconcerned

Example sentences

• 沙漠中有绿洲。
  Shāmò zhōng yǒu lǜzhōu.
  There is an oasis in the desert.
• 我想是在沙漠里。
  Wǒ xiǎng shì zài shāmò lǐ.
  In the desert, I think.
• 骆驼是沙漠之舟。
  Luòtuo shì shāmò zhī zhōu.
  A camel is to the desert what a ship is to the sea.
• 撒哈拉沙漠广袤无垠。
  Sǎhālā Shāmò guǎngmào wúyín.
  The Sahara is a vast desert.
• 你看过《沙漠雄狮》吗？
  Have you seen the movie "Lion of The Desert"?
• 地球表面的三分之一是沙漠。
  One third of the earth's surface is desert.

Words starting with 沙漠

• 沙漠化shā mò huàdesertification
• 沙漠之狐Shā mò zhī HúDesert Fox

Words containing 沙漠

• 戈壁沙漠Gē bì Shā mòGobi Desert
• 文化沙漠wén huà shā mòcultural desert
• 美食沙漠měi shí shā mòculinary desert
• 撒哈拉沙漠Sā hā lā Shā mòSahara Desert
• 莫哈韦沙漠Mò hā wéi Shā mòMojave Desert, southwestern USA
• 阿法尔沙漠Ā fǎ ěr Shā mòAfar Desert, Southern Ethiopia
• 库姆塔格沙漠Kù mǔ tǎ gé Shā mòKumutage (or Kumtag) Desert, northwestern China
• 腾格里沙漠Téng gé lǐ Shā mòTengger Desert, located in Inner Mongolia and Ningxia
• 鄂尔多斯沙漠È ěr duō sī Shā mòOrdos Desert, Inner Mongolia
• 塔克拉玛干沙漠Tǎ kè lā mǎ gān Shā mòTaklamakan Desert, Xinjiang
• 古尔班通古特沙漠Gǔ ěr bān tōng gǔ tè Shā mòGurbantunggut Desert, northern Xinjiang

Where 沙漠 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Deserts, Beaches & Nature Events (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shā mò correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.