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航行

háng xíng

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

航行 (háng xíng) means "to sail; to fly; to navigate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 航行 means

1. to sail
2. to fly
3. to navigate

The characters in 航行

• 航hángboat; ship; craft
• 行xíng(bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit…

Example sentences

• 船逆流航行。
  Chuán nìliú hángxíng.
  The boat is going against the current.
• 游艇绕浮标航行。
  Yóutǐng rào fúbiāo hángxíng.
  The yacht sailed around a buoy.
• 他们沿着非洲西岸航行了。
  Tāmen yánzhe Fēizhōu xī àn hángxíng le.
  They sailed along the west coast of Africa.
• 数艘游艇在远方的海洋并列航行。
  Shù sōu yóutǐng zài yuǎnfāng de hǎiyáng bìngliè hángxíng.
  Several yachts were sailing side by side far out at sea.
• 哥伦布提出，向西航行可以到达印度。
  Gēlúnbù tíchū, xiàngxī hángxíng kěyǐ dàodá Yìndù.
  Columbus argued that he could reach India by going west.
• Tom说他在这次的航行中读了一本书。
  T om shuō tā zài zhè cì de hángxíng zhōng dú le yī běn shū.
  Tom said he read a book about this ship.

Words containing 航行

• 抢风航行qiāng fēng háng xíngto tack against the wind (sailing)

Where 航行 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · háng–hé (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 háng xíng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.