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相反

xiāng fǎn

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

相反 (xiāng fǎn) means "opposite". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 相反 means

1. opposite
2. contrary

The characters in 相反

• 相xiāngeach other; one another; mutually
• 反fǎncontrary; in reverse; inside out or upside down

Example sentences

• 我的看法相反。
  My opinion is the opposite.
• 意义的原句是相反。
  The original sentence means the opposite.
• 他们往相反的方向去。
  Tāmen wǎng xiāngfǎn de fāngxiàng qù.
  They went in opposite directions.
• 他做的和我要求的相反。
  Tā zuò de hé wǒ yāoqiú de xiāngfǎn.
  He did the reverse of what I asked.
• 结果与我们预期的相反。
  The result is opposite to what we expected.
• 我的想法跟他的正好相反。
  Wǒ de xiǎngfǎ gēn tā de zhènghǎo xiāngfǎn.
  My idea went against his.

Words containing 相反

• 恰恰相反qià qià xiāng fǎnjust the opposite

Where 相反 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Abstract concepts (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 xiāng fǎn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.