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灵敏

líng mǐn

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

灵敏 (líng mǐn) means "smart; clever; sensitive". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 灵敏 means

1. smart
2. clever
3. sensitive
4. keen
5. quick
6. sharp

The characters in 灵敏

• 灵língquick; alert; efficacious
• 敏mǐn(bound form) quick; nimble; agile; (bound form) quick-witted; smart

Example sentences

• 狗的嗅觉灵敏。
  Gǒu de xiùjué língmǐn.
  Dogs have a keen sense of smell.
• 盲人的耳朵通常十分灵敏。
  Mángrén de ěrduo tōngcháng shífēn língmǐn.
  A blind person's hearing is often very acute.
• 玩这些电脑游戏要反应灵敏。
  Wán zhèxiē diànnǎo yóuxì yào fǎnyìng língmǐn.
  You need to have quick reactions to play these computer games.
• 狗的听觉比人类灵敏不知多少倍。
  Gǒu de tīngjué bǐ rénlèi língmǐn bù zhī duōshao bèi.
  The hearing acuity of dogs is superior by far to that of humans.
• 这里这只猫跟那里那只差不多一样灵敏。
  This cat here is almost as fat as that one.

Words starting with 灵敏

• 灵敏度líng mǐn dù(level of) sensitivity

Where 灵敏 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.

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