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犹豫

yóu yù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 猶豫

犹豫 (yóu yù) means "to hesitate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 犹豫 means

1. to hesitate

The characters in 犹豫

• 犹yóuas if; (just) like; just as
• 豫yùhappy; carefree; at one's ease

Example sentences

• 众人犹豫。
  Everyone hesitated.
• 不要犹豫去问问题。
  Bù yào yóuyù qù wèn wèntí.
  Don't hesitate to ask questions.
• 我会毫不犹豫嫁给你。
  I would marry you without hesitation.
• 他为什么仍然犹豫不决？
  Why did he remain hesitant?
• 他毫不犹豫地把自己的车卖了。
  Tā háo bù yóuyù de bǎ zìjǐ de chē mài le.
  Without the slightest hesitation, he sold his own car.
• 我犹豫了一会，不知道走哪条路才好。
  Wǒ yóuyù le yīhuì, bù zhīdào zǒu nǎ tiáo lù cái hǎo.
  I hesitated about which road to take.

Words starting with 犹豫

• 犹豫不决yóu yù bù juéhesitancy; indecision; to waver

Words containing 犹豫

• 毫不犹豫háo bù yóu yùwithout the slightest hesitation

Sounds the same

Read yóu yù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 冘豫variant of 犹豫

Where 犹豫 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Hesitation, Pre-planning & Raw Materials (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yóu yù correctly.
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