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熙熙攘攘

xī xī rǎng rǎng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

熙熙攘攘 (xī xī rǎng rǎng) means "bustling with activity (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 熙熙攘攘 means

1. idiombustling with activity

The characters in 熙熙攘攘

• 熙xī(used in names); (bound form; literary) bright; prosperous
• 熙xī(used in names); (bound form; literary) bright; prosperous
• 攘rǎng(literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist…
• 攘rǎng(literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist…

Sounds the same

Read xī xī rǎng rǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 熙熙壤壤variant of 熙熙攘攘

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xī xī rǎng rǎng correctly.
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