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粗心

cū xīn

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word

粗心 (cū xīn) means "inattentive / careless". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 粗心 means

1. careless
2. thoughtless

The characters in 粗心

• 粗cū(of sth long) wide; thick; (of sth granular) coarse; (of a voice) gruff
• 心xīnheart; mind; intention

Example sentences

• 别这幺粗心！
  Don't be so careless!
• 火生于粗心。
  The fire originated from carelessness.
• 他责备了我的粗心大意。
  Tā zébèi le wǒ de cūxīndàyì.
  He reproached me for carelessness.
• 她犯这样的错真的很粗心。
  Tā fàn zhèyàng de cuò zhēn de hěn cūxīn.
  It is careless of her to make such a mistake.
• 那事故是他的粗心导致的。
  Nà shìgù shì tā de cūxīn dǎozhì de.
  That accident was due to his carelessness.
• 她为自己的粗心感到羞耻。
  Tā wèi zìjǐ de cūxīn gǎndào xiūchǐ.
  She was ashamed of herself for her carelessness.

Words starting with 粗心

• 粗心大意cū xīn dà yìnegligent; careless; inadvertent

Where 粗心 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personality & character traits (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cū xīn correctly.
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