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简陋

jiǎn lòu

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

简陋 (jiǎn lòu) means "simple and crude". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 简陋 means

1. simple and crude

The characters in 简陋

• 简jiǎnsimple; uncomplicated; letter
• 陋lòulow; humble; plain

Example sentences

• 伯拉罕·林肯，美国第16任总统，生于肯塔基州的一个简陋的小屋里。
  Bó lā hǎn · Línkěn, Měiguó dì 16 rèn zǒngtǒng, shēng yú Kěntǎjīzhōu de yī gè jiǎnlòu de xiǎowū lǐ.
  Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Kentucky.

Sounds the same

Read jiǎn lòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 检漏to check for leaks
• 捡漏to repair a leaky roof; (dialect) to find fault; to nitpick…

Where 简陋 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jiàn (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 jiǎn lòu correctly.
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