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红绿灯

hóng lǜ dēng

HSK 3.0 level 3 3-character word Traditional 紅綠燈

红绿灯 (hóng lǜ dēng) means "traffic light". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 红绿灯 means

1. traffic light
2. traffic signal

The characters in 红绿灯

• 红hóngred; popular; revolutionary
• 绿lǜgreen; (slang) (derived from 绿帽子
• 灯dēnglamp; light; lantern

Example sentences

• 红绿灯变成绿色了。
  The traffic light turned green.
• 红绿灯一直在运作。
  Traffic lights work all the time.
• 在第一个红绿灯左转。
  Turn left at the first light.
• 红绿灯现在是绿色的。
  The light is green now.
• 到了红绿灯以后，往右拐。
  After you get to the traffic lights, turn right.
• 你一路往前走，过了红绿灯就到了。
  Nǐ yīlù wǎngqián zǒu, guo le hónglǜdēng jiù dào le.
  Go straight down the road, and when you pass the traffic light you're there.

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