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甚至

shèn zhì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

甚至 (shèn zhì) means "even; so much so that". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 甚至 means

1. even; so much so that

The characters in 甚至

• 甚shènexcessive; undue; to exceed; to be more than; very; extremely
• 至zhìto arrive; most; to

Example sentences

• 我甚至不喜欢你
  I don't even like you.
• 他甚至叫你傻瓜。
  He even called you an idiot.
• 他甚至骂我傻瓜。
  He even called me an idiot.
• 我甚至不想试试。
  I don't even want to try it.
• 我甚至在周日工作。
  I work even on Sunday.
• 我甚至让汤姆笑了。
  I even made Tom laugh.

Words starting with 甚至

• 甚至于shèn zhì yúso much (that); even (to the extent that)

Words containing 甚至

• 幸甚至哉xìng shèn zhì zāifilled with joy (quotation from poems by Cao Cao 曹操

Where 甚至 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Degree & scope words (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 shèn zhì correctly.
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