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灵感

líng gǎn

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

灵感 (líng gǎn) means "inspiration; insight; a burst of creativity in scientific or artistic endeavor". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 灵感 means

1. creative inspiration

The characters in 灵感

• 灵língquick; alert; efficacious
• 感gǎnto feel; to move; to touch

Example sentences

• 我灵感枯竭了。
  My inspiration has run dry.
• 我丢了我的灵感。
  I lost my inspiration.
• 什么是您最大的灵感来源？
  Shénme shì nín zuì dà de línggǎn láiyuán?
  What is your greatest source of inspiration?
• 什幺是您最大的灵感来源？
  What is your greatest source of inspiration?
• 她突然有了一个绝妙的灵感。
  Tā tūrán yǒule yī gè juémiào de línggǎn.
  Suddenly she had a brilliant inspiration.
• 我的母亲是一位天使，也是我的灵感来源
  Wǒ de mǔqīn shì yī wèi tiānshǐ, yě shì wǒ de línggǎn láiyuán
  My mother was an angel and an inspiration to me.

Words starting with 灵感

• 灵感触发图líng gǎn chù fā túmind map

Words containing 灵感

• 心灵感应xīn líng gǎn yìngtelepathy

Where 灵感 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · líng–lǐng (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read líng gǎn correctly.
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