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端午节

Duān wǔ jié

HSK 6 3-character word Traditional 端午節

What 端午节 means

1. Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)

The characters in 端午节

• 端duān(bound form) tip; end; extremity; (bound form) aspect; facet; (bound form) upright; proper
• 午wǔ7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of…
• 节jiéjoint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term…

Example sentences

• 端午节要赛龙舟。
  During the Dragon Boat Festival, there needs to be a dragon boat race.
• 端午节是纪念屈原的。
  Duānwǔjié shì jìniàn Qū Yuán de.
  The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Qu Yuan.

Where 端午节 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · duān–dù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read Duān wǔ jié correctly.
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