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背诵

bèi sòng

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

背诵 (bèi sòng) means "to recite; to repeat from memory". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 背诵 means

1. to recite
2. to repeat from memory

The characters in 背诵

• 背bèithe back of a body or object; to turn one's back; to hide something from
• 诵sòngto read aloud; to recite

Example sentences

• 我最讨厌背诵课文了。
  Wǒ zuì tǎoyàn bèisòng kèwén le.
  What I hate most of all is having to recite texts from memory.
• 他的女儿能背诵很多诗。
  Tā de nǚ'ér néng bèisòng hěn duō shī.
  His daughter is able to recite a lot of poems.

Where 背诵 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · bēi–běn (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 bèi sòng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.