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脾气

pí qi

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 脾氣 Measure word 股

脾气 (pí qi) means "temper". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 脾气 means

1. character; temperament; disposition
2. bad temper

The characters in 脾气

• 脾píspleen
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Example sentences

• 她脾气有点坏。
  She has a bit of a bad temper.
• 他向我大发脾气。
  Tā xiàng wǒ Dàfā píqi.
  He entirely lost his temper with me.
• 他很容易发脾气。
  Tā hěn róngyì fāpíqì.
  He loses his temper quite easily.
• 燕妮要发脾气了。
  Yanni was losing his temper.
• 玛丽很容易发脾气。
  Mary loses her temper easily.
• 他是个好脾气的人。
  He is an agreeable person.

Words containing 脾气

• 发脾气fā pí qìto lose one's temper; to fly into a rage; to throw a tantrum
• 坏脾气huài pí qìbad temper
• 牛脾气niú pí qibullheadedness; stubborn
• 耍脾气shuǎ pí qìto go into a huff
• 闹脾气nào pí qito get angry

Where 脾气 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personality & character traits (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read pí qi correctly.
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