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腐败

fǔ bài

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

腐败 (fǔ bài) means "corruption; to corrupt; to rot". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 腐败 means

1. corruption
2. to corrupt
3. to rot
4. rotten

The characters in 腐败

• 腐fǔdecay; rotten
• 败bàito defeat; to damage; to lose (to an opponent)

Example sentences

• 让我们赶走腐败的政客！
  Ràng wǒmen gǎnzǒu fǔbài de zhèngkè!
  Let's chase out corrupt politicians!
• 政治家以揭露政府官员的腐败来推动改革。
  Zhèngzhìjiā yǐ jiēlù zhèngfǔguānyuán de fǔbài lái tuīdòng gǎigé.
  The politician pushed for reform by denouncing the corruption of the government officials.

Words starting with 腐败

• 腐败罪fǔ bài zuìthe crime of corruption

Words containing 腐败

• 反腐败fǎn fǔ bàito oppose corruption; anti-graft (measures, policy etc)
• 易腐败yì fǔ bàiperishable
• 贪污腐败tān wū fǔ bàicorruption

Where 腐败 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fèng–fǔ (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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