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绅士

shēn shì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 紳士

绅士 (shēn shì) means "gentleman". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 绅士 means

1. gentleman

The characters in 绅士

• 绅shēnmember of gentry
• 士shìmember of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor

Example sentences

• 他绝对不是绅士。
  He is anything but a gentleman.
• 他肯定不是什么绅士。
  He's definitely no gentleman.
• 他看上去是个十足的绅士。
  Tā kànshangqu shì ge shízú de shēnshì.
  He looks every inch a gentleman.
• 我只知道那个绅士的名字。
  I know that gentleman only by name.
• 一个绅士是不会做这种事的。
  Yī gè shēnshì shì bù huì zuò zhèzhǒng shì de.
  A gentleman wouldn't do such a thing.
• 这样的举止只可能是个绅士。
  Zhèyàng de jǔzhǐ zhǐ kěnéng shì ge shēnshì.
  He must be a gentleman to act that way.

Words containing 绅士

• 太平绅士tài píng shēn shìJustice of the Peace (JP)

Sounds the same

Read shēn shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 身世one's life experience; one's lot; one's past history

Where 绅士 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shè–Shè (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 shēn shì correctly.
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