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繁殖

fán zhí

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

繁殖 (fán zhí) means "to breed, reproduce". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 繁殖 means

1. to breed
2. to reproduce
3. to propagate

The characters in 繁殖

• 繁fáncomplicated; many; in great numbers
• 殖zhíto grow; to reproduce

Example sentences

• 数月后，牠们回到了北极的繁殖地。
  Shùyuè hòu, tā men huídào le běijí de fánzhí de.
  A few months later they return to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.
• 数月后，它们回到了北极的繁殖地。
  A few months later they return to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.
• 为了提高出生率，中国政府花了很多钱在大熊猫成功繁殖的研究上。
  Wèile tígāo chūshēnglǜ, Zhōngguó zhèngfǔ huā le hěn duō qián zài dàxióngmāo chénggōng fánzhí de yánjiū shàng.
  The Chinese government has spent a lot of money on research into successful panda breeding in order to increase their birth rate.

Words starting with 繁殖

• 繁殖体fán zhí tǐ(biology) propagule

Words containing 繁殖

• 无性繁殖wú xìng fán zhíasexual reproduction
• 近亲繁殖jìn qīn fán zhíinbreeding
• 驯养繁殖xùn yǎng fán zhídomestication and breeding; captive breeding
• 驯养繁殖场xùn yǎng fán zhí chǎngcaptive breeding facility; breeding farm

Where 繁殖 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fān–fā (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 fán zhí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.