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细菌

xì jūn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 細菌

细菌 (xì jūn) means "bacterium". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 细菌 means

1. bacterium
2. germ

The characters in 细菌

• 细xìthin or slender; finely particulate; thin and soft
• 菌jūngerm; bacteria; fungus

Example sentences

• 观察放大了一万倍的细菌。
  Guānchá fàngdà le yī wàn bèi de xìjūn.
  Observe bacteria magnified ten thousand times.
• 细菌微小到无法用肉眼看到。
  Bacteria are so small that they cannot be seen with the naked eye.
• 手机如同马桶一样被细菌污染。
  Shǒujī rútóng mǎtǒng yīyàng bèi xìjūn wūrǎn.
  A cell phone is as contaminated with bacteria as a toilet is.

Words starting with 细菌

• 细菌战xì jūn zhànbiological warfare; germ warfare
• 细菌群xì jūn qúnbacterial community (e.g. in the gut)
• 细菌武器xì jūn wǔ qìbiological weapon (using germs)
• 细菌病毒xì jūn bìng dúbacteriophage; virus that infects bacteria
• 细菌性痢疾xì jūn xìng lì jíbacillary dysentery

Words containing 细菌

• 蓝细菌lán xì jūnCyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
• 超级细菌chāo jí xì jūnsuperbug
• 氰基细菌qíng jī xì jūncyanobacteria

Where 细菌 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · xiá–xì (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 xì jūn correctly.
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