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牙膏

yá gāo

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Measure word 管

牙膏 (yá gāo) means "toothpaste". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 牙膏 means

1. toothpaste

The characters in 牙膏

• 牙yátooth; ivory
• 膏gāoointment; paste

Example sentences

• 请买一支牙膏。
  Qǐng mǎi yī zhī yágāo.
  Please buy a tube of toothpaste.
• 请买条牙膏吧。
  Please buy a tube of toothpaste.
• 汤姆忘了买牙膏了。
  Tāngmǔ wàng le mǎi yágāo le.
  Tom forgot to buy toothpaste.
• 在哪儿我能找到牙膏？
  Zài nǎr wǒ néng zhǎodào yágāo?
  Where can I find toothpaste?
• 不能把牙膏塞回管里。
  You can't put toothpaste back in the tube.
• 大多数牙膏里含有氟化物。
  Dàduōshù yágāo lǐ hányǒu fúhuàwù.
  Most toothpastes contain fluoride.

Words containing 牙膏

• 挤牙膏jǐ yá gāolit. to squeeze out toothpaste; fig. to extract a confession under pressure

Where 牙膏 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Home & household objects (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yá gāo correctly.
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