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绳子

shéng zi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 繩子 Measure word 条

绳子 (shéng zi) means "cord; string; rope". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 绳子 means

1. cord; string; rope

The characters in 绳子

• 绳shéngrope
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 抓住绳子。
  Grab a hold of the rope.
• 绳子在哪里？
  Where's the rope?
• 绳子按米卖。
  String is sold by the metre.
• 我放开了绳子。
  Wǒ fàngkāi le shéngzi.
  I let go of the rope.
• 退到绳子后面。
  Stand back from the rope.
• 他抓住了绳子。
  He caught hold of the rope.

Where 绳子 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shéng zi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.