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炒作

chǎo zuò

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

炒作 (chǎo zuò) means "to hype; to promote (in the media)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 炒作 means

1. to hype
2. to promote (in the media)

The characters in 炒作

• 炒chǎoto sauté; to stir-fry; to speculate (in real estate etc); to scalp; to hype up
• 作zuòto do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign

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