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沾光

zhān guāng

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

沾光 (zhān guāng) means "to bask in the light; fig. to benefit from association with sb or sth; reflected glory". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 沾光 means

1. to bask in the light
2. fig. to benefit from association with sb or sth
3. reflected glory

The characters in 沾光

• 沾zhānto moisten; to be infected by; to receive benefit or advantage through a contact
• 光guānglight; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely

Where 沾光 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhā (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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