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突出

tū chū

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

突出 (tū chū) means "prominent, outstanding". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 突出 means

1. prominent
2. outstanding
3. to give prominence to
4. to protrude
5. to project

The characters in 突出

• 突tūto dash; to move forward quickly; to bulge
• 出chūto go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield

Example sentences

• 我门牙突出。
  Wǒ ményá tūchū.
  My front teeth stick out.

Words containing 突出

• 腰椎间盘突出yāo zhuī jiān pán tū chūlumbar disc herniation

Sounds the same

Read tū chū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 凸出to protrude; to stick out

Where 突出 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Goals, Catalogs & Present State (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tū chū correctly.
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