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盛夏

shèng xià

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

盛夏 (shèng xià) means "midsummer; the height of summer". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 盛夏 means

1. midsummer
2. the height of summer

The characters in 盛夏

• 盛shèngflourishing; vigorous; magnificent
• 夏xiàsummer

Example sentences

• 这小镇的天气十分暖和，即使是在盛夏，温度计也很少会升到三十度。
  Zhè xiǎozhèn de tiānqì shífēn nuǎnhuo, jíshǐ shì zài shèngxià, wēndùjì yě hěn shǎo huì shēng dào sānshí dù.
  The climate of this town is so mild that the thermometer seldom rises to thirty degrees, even in midsummer.

Sounds the same

Read shèng xià, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 剩下to remain; to be left over

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shèng xià correctly.
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