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糟糕

zāo gāo

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

糟糕 (zāo gāo) means "terrible; "oh no!"". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 糟糕 means

1. too bad
2. how terrible
3. what bad luck
4. terrible
5. bad

The characters in 糟糕

• 糟zāodregs; draff; pickled in wine
• 糕gāocake

Example sentences

• 真糟糕！
  How horrible!
• 真糟糕。
  It was terrible.
• 糟糕啊！
  Terrible!
• 再糟糕不过了
  Zài zāogāo bùguò le
  That couldn't have gone any worse.
• 那太糟糕了。
  That's too bad.
• 一切都很糟糕。
  Everything is bad.

Where 糟糕 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Confusion, Foolishness & Deception (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zāo gāo correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.