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目的

mù dì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

目的 (mù dì) means "purpose; aim; goal; target; objective". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 目的 means

1. purpose; aim; goal; target; objective

The characters in 目的

• 目mùeye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh
• 的deof; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)…

Example sentences

• 爱是盲目的。
  Love is blind.
• 爱情是盲目的。
  Love is blind.
• 为了什么目的？
  For what purpose?
• 这是我的目的。
  That's my aim.
• 他们直奔目的地。
  Tāmen zhíbèn mùdìdì.
  They made straight for their destination.
• 他们达到了目的。
  They attained their goal.

Words starting with 目的

• 目的地mù dì dìdestination (location)

Words containing 目的

• 漫无目的màn wú mù dìaimless; at random
• 多目的duō mù dìmultipurpose

Sounds the same

Read mù dì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 墓地cemetery; graveyard
• 牧地pasture; grazing land

Where 目的 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 mù dì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.