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渗透

shèn tòu

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

渗透 (shèn tòu) means "(lit. and fig.) to permeate; to seep into; (of a product, idea etc) to penetrate (in a population)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 渗透 means

1. (lit. and fig.) to permeate
2. to seep into
3. (of a product, idea etc) to penetrate (in a population)
4. (of hostile forces) to infiltrate
5. chemistryosmosis

The characters in 渗透

• 渗shènto seep; to ooze; to horrify
• 透tòu(bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly…

Example sentences

• 骇客们找到渗透私人或公共网络的新方法。
  Hàikè men zhǎodào shèntòu sīrén huò gōnggòng wǎngluò de xīn fāngfǎ.
  Hackers find new ways of infiltrating private or public networks.

Words starting with 渗透

• 渗透压shèn tòu yāosmotic pressure

Words containing 渗透

• 反渗透fǎn shèn tòuanti-infiltration (measures taken against subversive external forces)…
• 逆渗透nì shèn tòureverse osmosis
• 反渗透法Fǎn shèn tòu fǎ(Taiwan) Anti-infiltration Act (2020), which regulates the influence of entities deemed…

Where 渗透 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shēng–shèn (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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