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答辩

dá biàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 答辯

答辩 (dá biàn) means "to reply (to an accusation); to defend one's dissertation". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 答辩 means

1. to reply (to an accusation)
2. to defend one's dissertation

The characters in 答辩

• 答dáto answer; to reply; to respond
• 辩biànto dispute; to debate; to argue

Example sentences

• 你在准备论文答辩吗？
  Are you preparing for your thesis defense?
• 下个月就要进行硕士论文答辩了。
  Xiàgèyuè jiùyào jìnxíng shuòshì lùnwén dábiàn le.
  The defense of the master thesis is just happening next month.

Where 答辩 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · dǎ (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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