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激烈

jī liè

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

激烈 (jī liè) means "intense (competition/fighting)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 激烈 means

1. (of competition or fighting) intense
2. fierce
3. (of pain) acute
4. (of an expression of opinion) impassioned
5. vehement
6. (of a course of action) drastic
7. extreme

The characters in 激烈

• 激jīto arouse; to incite; to excite
• 烈lièardent; intense; fierce

Example sentences

• 我们激烈的讨论了这个问题。
  Wǒmen jīliè de tǎolùn le zhège wèntí.
  We had a heated discussion about it.

Where 激烈 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Competition, Fitness & Timing (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 jī liè correctly.
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