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潜力

qián lì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 潛力

潜力 (qián lì) means "potential". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 潜力 means

1. potential; latent capacity

The characters in 潜力

• 潜qiánhidden; secret; latent
• 力lìpower; force; strength

Example sentences

• 她充满潜力。
  Tā chōngmǎn qiánlì.
  She is full of potential.
• 有领导潜力吗？
  Do you have leadership potential?
• 他有极大的潜力。
  Tā yǒu jídà de qiánlì.
  He has enormous potential.
• 政府官员与业界人士也开始意识到「甲烷捕捉计画」的潜力。美国农业部正在密西西比州及其他数个州资助农场内的实验场址。部分大型禽肉加工业者正在成立再生能源部门，以供应饲料厂所需电力。此外，一家燃料公司正在评估是否可以用鸡只排放的甲烷取代天然气，并注入管线，用来为部分沿线发电机提供动力。
  Officials from government and industry are also starting to recognize the potential of the Methane Capture Project. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding experimental on-farm sites in Mississippi and several other states. Some large poultry processors are launching renewable energy divisions to power their feed mills. And a fuel company is investigating the possibility of pumping chicken-waste methane instead of natural gas through its pipeline, and to use it to power some of the generators along the way.

Words starting with 潜力

• 潜力股qián lì gǔstock that has potential to increase in value; (fig.) sb with good prospects
• 潜力股男人qián lì gǔ nán rénman with good prospects

Words containing 潜力

• 有潜力yǒu qián lìpromising; showing potential

Sounds the same

Read qián lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 前例precedent

Where 潜力 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qiǎng–qiáo (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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qián lì correctly.
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