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花生

huā shēng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Measure word 粒

花生 (huā shēng) means "peanut". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 花生 means

1. peanut

The characters in 花生

• 花huāflower; blossom; fancy pattern
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 你对花生过敏吗？
  Are you allergic to peanuts?
• 萨米很喜欢花生。
  Sami really likes peanuts.
• 他对花生过敏吧？
  He's allergic to peanuts, isn't he?
• 我对花生严重过敏。
  I'm severely allergic to peanuts.
• 汤姆对花生过敏吧？
  Tom is allergic to peanuts, isn't he?
• 有很多人对花生过敏。
  Many people are allergic to peanuts.

Words starting with 花生

• 花生米huā shēng mǐshelled peanuts
• 花生秀huā shēng xiù(loanword) fashion show
• 花生仁huā shēng rénshelled peanut; peanut kernel
• 花生酱huā shēng jiàngpeanut butter

Words containing 花生

• 落花生luò huā shēngpeanut (the plant)

Where 花生 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Food, Cooking & Cuisine (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read huā shēng correctly.
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