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沮丧

jǔ sàng

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

沮丧 (jǔ sàng) means "dispirited; dejected; dismayed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 沮丧 means

1. dispirited
2. dejected
3. dismayed

The characters in 沮丧

• 沮jǔto destroy; to stop
• 丧sàngto lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc)…

Example sentences

• 他很沮丧。
  He is very depressed.
• 你很沮丧。
  You're very dejected.
• 汤姆有点沮丧。
  Tom is a little depressed.
• 我经常觉得沮丧。
  I feel depressed often.
• 这让我感到沮丧。
  It makes me feel sad.
• 我为小事情觉得沮丧。
  Wǒ wèi xiǎoshì qíng juéde jǔsàng.
  I get depressed by the slightest things.

Where 沮丧 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jù–jǔ (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 jǔ sàng correctly.
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