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膝盖

xī gài

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

膝盖 (xī gài) means "knee; (Internet slang) to kneel down (in admiration)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 膝盖 means

1. knee
2. net slangto kneel down (in admiration)

The characters in 膝盖

• 膝xīknee
• 盖gàilid; top; cover

Example sentences

• 我的膝盖疼。
  My knee aches.
• 积雪深及膝盖。
  The snow was knee deep.
• 我在膝盖上跟婴儿玩。
  Wǒ zài xīgài shàng gēn yīng'ér wán.
  I played with the baby on my knee.
• 玛丽处理了膝盖的伤口。
  Mǎlì chǔlǐ le xīgài de shāngkǒu.
  Mary treated her wounded knee.
• 他从腰部到膝盖都湿了。
  Tā cóng yāobù dào xīgài dōu shī le.
  He got wet from the waist to the knees.
• 只跑了一点点，膝盖就开始发抖。
  Zhǐ pǎo le yīdiǎndiǎn, xīgài jiù kāishǐ fādǒu.
  All I did was run a little and now my knees are wobbly.

Words starting with 膝盖

• 膝盖骨xī gài gǔkneecap

Words containing 膝盖

• 磕膝盖kē xī gài(dialect) knee

Where 膝盖 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · wù–xī (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 xī gài correctly.
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