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清淡

qīng dàn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

清淡 (qīng dàn) means "light (food, not greasy/salty)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 清淡 means

1. light (of food, not greasy or strongly flavored)
2. insipid
3. slack (sales)

The characters in 清淡

• 清qīng(of water etc) clear; clean; quiet; still; pure; uncorrupted
• 淡dàninsipid; diluted; weak

Example sentences

• 今天想吃清淡的食物呢。
  Jīntiān xiǎng chī qīngdàn de shíwù ne.
  Today I want to eat something light.
• 我早餐通常吃得很清淡。
  Wǒ zǎocān tōngcháng chī dehěn qīngdàn.
  I usually have a light breakfast.

Sounds the same

Read qīng dàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 氢弹H-bomb; hydrogen bomb

Where 清淡 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Attitude, Light Food & Contempt (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 qīng dàn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.