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狭隘

xiá ài

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

狭隘 (xiá ài) means "narrow; tight; narrow minded". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 狭隘 means

1. (of a path etc) narrow
2. (of a living space etc) cramped
3. (of a way of thinking, a definition etc) narrow; limited

The characters in 狭隘

• 狭xiánarrow; narrow-minded
• 隘ài(bound form) narrow; (bound form) a defile; a narrow pass

Example sentences

• 别让狭隘的人让你相信你的梦想过于宏大。
  Don't let narrow-minded people convince you that your dreams are too big.

Words containing 狭隘

• 心胸狭隘xīn xiōng xiá àinarrow; petty-minded

Where 狭隘 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 ài correctly.
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