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狭窄

xiá zhǎi

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

狭窄 (xiá zhǎi) means "narrow". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 狭窄 means

1. narrow

The characters in 狭窄

• 狭xiánarrow; narrow-minded
• 窄zhǎinarrow; narrow-minded; badly off

Example sentences

• 这个角度会过于狭窄。
  Zhège jiǎodù huì guòyú xiázhǎi.
  The angle would be too narrow.
• 他在一条狭窄的道路上走。
  Tā zài yī tiáo xiázhǎi de dàolù shàng zǒu.
  The man is hiking on a narrow path.
• 位处赤道附近一个狭窄区域的热带雨林，正在不断地遭受人类的破坏，预计在二零零零年之前，该区域将会有五分之四的热带雨林从地球上消失。
  Wèi chǔ chìdào fùjìn yī gè xiázhǎi qūyù de rèdàiyǔlín, zhèngzài bù duàn de zāoshòu rénlèi de pòhuài, yùjì zài èr líng líng líng nián zhīqián, gāi qūyù jiānghuì yǒu wǔ fēnzhī sì de rèdàiyǔlín cóng dìqiú shàng xiāoshī.
  The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.
• 我们突然向下望去，只见一个杯状的洼地，上面点缀着矮小的橡树和被多年风暴肆虐扭曲变形的蕨类植物。两座高耸狭窄的塔楼耸立在树梢之上。车夫用鞭子指着前方。他说：「巴斯克维尔庄园。」
  Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.

Words containing 狭窄

• 心胸狭窄xīn xiōng xiá zhǎi(idiom) narrow-minded; petty; ungenerous
• 二尖瓣狭窄èr jiān bàn xiá zhǎimitral stenosis (physiology)

Where 狭窄 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiá–xì (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 xiá zhǎi correctly.
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