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消极

xiāo jí

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 消極

消极 (xiāo jí) means "negative". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 消极 means

1. negative
2. passive
3. inactive

The characters in 消极

• 消xiāoto diminish; to subside; to consume; to reduce; to idle away (the time)
• 极jíextremely; pole (geography, physics); utmost

Example sentences

• 他的性格很消极。
  Tā de xìnggé hěn xiāojí.
  He has a passive character.
• 乐观如明灯,照亮希望的前程. 消极如毒品,腐蚀健康的心灵.
  Lèguān rú míng dēng, zhàoliàng xīwàng de qiánchéng. xiāojí rú dúpǐn, fǔshí jiànkāng de xīnlíng.
  Optimism is like the lamp of hope. Pessimism [or negativity] is like a drug of sorrow.
• 玛丽娜现在仍是个浪漫的人，她还没有陷入消极的精神状态 -- 那是一种认为一个人必须找一个角落活着，不管哪儿，然后一生就回绕着那个角落的的精神状态。
  Mǎlì nà xiànzài réng shì gè làngmàn de rén, tā hái méiyǒu xiànrù xiāojí de jīngshénzhuàngtài -- nàshi yīzhǒng rènwéi yīgèrén bìxū zhǎo yī gè jiǎoluò huózhe, bù guǎn nǎr, ránhòu yīshēng jiù huírào zhe nàge jiǎoluò de de jīngshénzhuàngtài.
  Now Marina was a romantic, she had not yet fallen into that passive state of mind which accepts that one should find a corner to live, anywhere, and then arrange one's whole life around it.

Words starting with 消极

• 消极性xiāo jí xìngpassive; passivity; negative

Where 消极 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiàng–xiào (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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