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猩猩

xīng xing

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

猩猩 (xīng xing) means "orangutan; (slang) dialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 猩猩 means

1. orangutan
2. slangdialect speaker whose speech is corrupted by Standard Mandarin

The characters in 猩猩

• 猩xīngape
• 猩xīngape

Example sentences

• 你爸爸是一个大猩猩。
  Nǐ bàba shì yī gè dàxīngxing.
  Your father is a gorilla.
• 圈养导致大猩猩生病。
  Juànyǎng dǎozhì dàxīngxing shēngbìng.
  Captivity makes gorillas sick.
• 可可不是一只普通的猩猩。
  Kěkě bù shì yī zhī pǔtōng de xīngxing.
  Koko is not an ordinary gorilla.
• 我们的遗传基因真的和黑猩猩几乎一样吗？
  Wǒmen de yíchuán jīyīn zhēnde hé hēixīngxīng jīhū yīyàng ma?
  Is it true that our genetic heritage is almost the same as that of chimpanzees?
• 我观察到一只黑猩猩剥了一根香蕉并吃了它。
  Wǒ guānchá dào yī zhī hēixīngxing bāo le yī gēn xiāngjiāo bìng chī le tā.
  I observe a chimpanzee peel a banana and eat it.
• 虽然猩猩不懂得开口说话，但牠们能用其他方式和人类沟通。
  Suīrán xīngxing bù dǒngde kāikǒu shuōhuà, dàn tā men néng yòng qítā fāngshì hé rénlèi gōutōng.
  Gorillas cannot use their lips and tongues to speak, but they can communicate with people in other ways.

Words containing 猩猩

• 大猩猩dà xīng xinggorilla
• 黑猩猩hēi xīng xingcommon chimpanzee
• 倭黑猩猩wō hēi xīng xingbonobo; pygmy chimpanzee

Sounds the same

Read xīng xing, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 星星(colloquial) a star; the stars in the sky

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