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生锈

shēng xiù

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 生鏽

What 生锈 means

1. (of metal) to rust; to become rusty
2. (fig.) (of a skill etc) to get rusty; to deteriorate

The characters in 生锈

• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 锈xiùto rust

Example sentences

• 你的刀生锈了。
  Your knife is rusty.
• 萨米将生锈的叉子放进了洗碗机。
  Sami put the rusty fork in the dishwasher.
• 如果你把自行车留在雨中，它会生锈的。
  Rúguǒ nǐ bǎ zìxíngchē liú zài yǔ zhōng, tā huì shēng xiù de.
  A bicycle will rust if you leave it in the rain.

Words containing 生锈

• 永不生锈的螺丝钉yǒng bù shēng xiù de luó sī dīnga "screw that never rusts" – metaphor used in CCP propaganda to praise loyal, selfless…
• 刀不磨要生锈，人不学要落后dāo bù mó yào shēng xiù , rén bù xué yào luò hòu(proverb) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened…

Where 生锈 is taught

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

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