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缺口

quē kǒu

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

缺口 (quē kǒu) means "nick; jag; gap". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 缺口 means

1. nick
2. jag
3. gap
4. shortfall

The characters in 缺口

• 缺quēdeficiency; lack; scarce
• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…

Example sentences

• 一个缺口的杯子，如果换一个角度看它，它仍然是圆的。
  Yī gè quēkǒu de bēizi, rúguǒ huàn yī gè jiǎodù kàn tā, tā réngrán shì yuán de.
  An incomplete glass, if you look it in another direction, it is still circle.

Where 缺口 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · quǎn–què (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 quē kǒu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.