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生气

shēng qì

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 生氣

生气 (shēng qì) means "to get angry". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 生气 means

1. to get angry; to be furious
2. vitality; liveliness

The characters in 生气

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Example sentences

• 别生气。
  Don't get angry.
• 他生气了。
  He got angry.
• 他很生气。
  He is in an angry mood.
• 我很生气！
  I'm outraged!
• 我没生气。
  I wasn't angry.
• 我会生气。
  I can become angry.

Words starting with 生气

• 生气勃勃shēng qì bó bó(idiom) vibrant; full of vitality
• 生气蓬勃shēng qì péng bóvibrant; full of vitality
• 生气盎然shēng qì àng ránsee 生机盎然

Words containing 生气

• 动不动就生气dòng bu dòng jiù shēng qìto be quick to take offense; to have a short fuse
• 伴生气bàn shēng qìassociated gas (petrochemical engineering)

Sounds the same

Read shēng qì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 声气voice; tone; information

Where 生气 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Emotions & Attitudes (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shēng qì correctly.
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