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理想

lǐ xiǎng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

理想 (lǐ xiǎng) means "an ideal". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 理想 means

1. an ideal
2. a dream
3. ideal
4. perfect

The characters in 理想

• 理lǐtexture; grain (of wood); inner essence
• 想xiǎngto think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that)

Example sentences

• 你是我的理想情人。
  Nǐ shì wǒ de lǐxiǎng qíngrén.
  You're the girl of my dreams.
• 他被证实是个理想丈夫。
  Tā bèi zhèngshí shì gè lǐxiǎng zhàngfu.
  He proved to be an ideal husband.
• 他表明自己是一个理想的丈夫。
  Tā biǎomíng zìjǐ shì yī gè lǐxiǎng de zhàngfu.
  He's making it clear that he's an ideal husband.

Words starting with 理想

• 理想主义lǐ xiǎng zhǔ yìidealism
• 理想化lǐ xiǎng huàto idealize
• 理想国lǐ xiǎng guóideal state; utopia

Words containing 理想

• 远大理想yuǎn dà lǐ xiǎnglofty ideal

Where 理想 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Growth, goals & success (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lǐ xiǎng correctly.
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