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纪录

jì lù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 紀錄

纪录 (jì lù) means "record (e.g. a world record); to record". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 纪录 means

1. variant of {记录|jì lù} (but in Taiwan, not for the verb sense "to record")

The characters in 纪录

• 纪jìorder; discipline; age
• 录lùto carve wood

Example sentences

• 他破了世界纪录。
  Tā pò le shìjièjìlù.
  He broke the world record.
• 她打破了世界纪录。
  Tā dǎpò le shìjièjìlù.
  She broke the world record.
• 他录了一个纪录片给我。
  Tā lù le yī gè jìlùpiàn gěi wǒ.
  He recorded a documentary and gave it to me.
• 她允许了我对她的访问纪录。
  Tā yǔnxǔ le wǒ duì tā de fǎngwèn jìlù.
  She gave me access to her records.
• 他刷新了百米短跑的世界纪录。
  Tā shuāxīn le bǎi mǐ duǎnpǎo de shìjièjìlù.
  His record is a new world record in the 100-meter dash.
• 这部有关环境危机的纪录片真是令人大开眼界。
  Zhè bù yǒuguān huánjìng wēijī de jìlùpiàn zhēnshi lìngrén dàkāi yǎnjiè.
  That documentary about the environmental crisis was a real eye-opener.

Words starting with 纪录

• 纪录片jì lù piànnewsreel; documentary (film or TV program)

Words containing 纪录

• 世界纪录shì jiè jì lùworld record
• 破纪录pò jì lùto break a record; record-breaking
• 刷新纪录shuā xīn jì lùto set a new record
• 伪纪录片wěi jì lù piànmockumentary
• 吉尼斯世界纪录Jí ní sī Shì jiè Jì lùGuinness World Records

Sounds the same

Read jì lù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 记录to record; record (written account); note-taker
• 季路Ji Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子

Where 纪录 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jì lù correctly.
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