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等级

děng jí

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 等級

等级 (děng jí) means "grade". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 等级 means

1. grade
2. rank
3. status

The characters in 等级

• 等děngto wait for; to await; by the time; when; till; and so on; etc.; et al.
• 级jílevel; grade; rank

Example sentences

• 形式是暂时的，等级才是永恒的。
  Form is temporary, class is permanent.
• 汤姆尽了全力，但他还是不能获得比玛丽更高的等级。
  Tāngmǔ jìn le quánlì, dàn tā háishi bù néng huòdé bǐ Mǎlì gèng gāo de děngjí.
  Tom did the best he could, but he wasn't able to get a higher grade than Mary.
• 根据国土安全部的规定，目前的安全水准是橙色等级。
  Gēnjù Guótǔ ānquánbù de guīdìng, mùqián de ānquán shuǐzhǔn shì chéngsè děngjí.
  The security level, as established by the Department of Homeland Security, is orange.
• 我听说，如果没在十二岁前开始学一个语言，是无法达到母语等级的。
  Wǒ tīngshuō, rúguǒ méi zài shí'èr suì qián kāishǐ xué yī gè yǔyán, shì wúfǎ dádào mǔyǔ děngjí de.
  I've heard it said that there is no way for you to ever reach native proficiency in a language if you haven't started studying it before the age of twelve.
• 在过去一个相当长的时期里，社会都是等级制度森严并且极度不公的，做为社会阶级中最大一部分的贫农常常被赋税，战争，饥荒压得喘不过气来，痛苦不堪。
  Zài guòqù yī gè xiāngdāng cháng de shíqī lǐ, shèhuì dōu shì děngjí zhìdù sēnyán bìngqiě jídù bùgōng de, zuò wéi shèhuì jiējí zhōng zuì dà yī bùfen de pín nóng chángcháng bèi fùshuì, zhànzhēng, jīhuang yā de chuǎnbuguò qì lái, tòngkǔ bùkān.
  For a long time, society was strongly hierarchical and unequal, primarily composed of peasants. The most backward, impoverished segment of the population, they were crushed by the weight of taxes, wars, and famines.

Words starting with 等级

• 等级制度děng jí zhì dùhierarchy

Words containing 等级

• 信用等级xìn yòng děng jícredit level
• 社会等级shè huì děng jísocial rank; class; caste

Where 等级 is taught

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

Go deeper

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