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珍贵

zhēn guì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 珍貴

珍贵 (zhēn guì) means "precious". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 珍贵 means

1. precious

The characters in 珍贵

• 珍zhēnprecious thing; treasure; culinary delicacy
• 贵guìexpensive; (bound form) highly valued; precious; (bound form) noble; of high rank

Example sentences

• 丝绸是很珍贵的。
  Sīchóu shì hěn zhēnguì de.
  Silk is very precious.
• 没有什么和时间一样珍贵。
  Méiyǒushénme hé shíjiān yīyàng zhēnguì.
  Nothing is so precious as time.
• 没有什幺和时间一样珍贵。
  Nothing is so precious as time.
• 没有什么东西是跟爱一样珍贵的。
  Méiyǒushénme dōngxi shì gēn ài yīyàng zhēnguì de.
  Nothing is as precious as love.
• 唯一比什幺资源都珍贵的是土地。
  The only thing that is more precious than any resource is land.
• 唯一比无论什么资源都珍贵的是土地。
  Wéiyī bǐ wúlùn shénme zīyuán dōu zhēnguì de shì tǔdì.
  The one resource more precious than any other was land.

Words containing 珍贵

• 弥足珍贵mí zú zhēn guìextremely precious; valuable

Where 珍贵 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhèn–zhēn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhēn guì correctly.
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