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稚嫩

zhì nèn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

稚嫩 (zhì nèn) means "young and tender; puerile; soft and immature". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 稚嫩 means

1. young and tender
2. puerile
3. soft and immature

The characters in 稚嫩

• 稚zhìinfantile; young
• 嫩nènyoung and tender; (of food) tender; lightly cooked; (of color) light

Example sentences

• “以前网络好稚嫩啊，是吧？”“不，并没有。”
  "The Internet was so innocent back then, wasn't it?" "No, it wasn't."

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhì nèn correctly.
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