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腐朽

fǔ xiǔ

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

腐朽 (fǔ xiǔ) means "rotten; decayed; decadent". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 腐朽 means

1. rotten
2. decayed
3. decadent
4. degenerate

The characters in 腐朽

• 腐fǔdecay; rotten
• 朽xiǔrotten

Example sentences

• 问题不是政治不纯洁，而是整个政治博弈已经腐朽。
  The trouble is not with impure politics, but that the whole game of politics is rotten.

Words containing 腐朽

• 化腐朽为神奇huà fǔ xiǔ wéi shén qílit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom)

Where 腐朽 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fǔ xiǔ correctly.
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