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精打细算

jīng dǎ xì suàn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 精打細算

精打细算 (jīng dǎ xì suàn) means "meticulous planning and careful accounting (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 精打细算 means

1. meticulous planning and careful accounting (idiom)

The characters in 精打细算

• 精jīngessence; extract; vitality
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 细xìthin or slender; finely particulate; thin and soft
• 算suànto calculate; to figure out; to include; to count in; to count; to be valid…

Where 精打细算 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jīng–jìn (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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