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耳光

ěr guāng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Measure word 记

耳光 (ěr guāng) means "a slap on the face". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 耳光 means

1. a slap on the face

The characters in 耳光

• 耳ěrear; handle (archaeology); and that is all (Classical Chinese)
• 光guānglight; ray; bright; shiny; only; merely

Example sentences

• 她给了他一个耳光。
  Tā gěi le tā yī gè ěrguāng.
  She slapped him in the face.
• 我的母亲经常让行人吃耳光。
  Wǒ de mǔqīn jīngcháng ràng xíngrén chī ěrguāng.
  My mother often slaps passers-by.

Words containing 耳光

• 打耳光dǎ ěr guāngto slap on the face; to box sb's ears

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read ěr guāng correctly.
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