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蔑视

miè shì

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

蔑视 (miè shì) means "to loathe; to despise; contempt". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 蔑视 means

1. to loathe
2. to despise
3. contempt

The characters in 蔑视

• 蔑mièto belittle; nothing
• 视shì(literary, or bound form) to look at

Example sentences

• 你蔑视了目睹你罪行的仙女们，也蔑视了我を这位强大的潘神。
  You scorned both the Nymphs, who beheld your deeds, and me the mighty Pan.
• 最光明的处世方法是既蔑视社会的因袭，又过着与社会的因袭不相矛盾的生活。
  Zuì guāngmíng de chǔshì fāngfǎ shì jì mièshì shèhuì de yīnxí, yòu guo zhe yǔ shèhuì de yīnxí bù xiāng máodùn de shēnghuó.
  The most enlightened way of living is to despise social conventions while at the same time living your life in conformity to them.

Where 蔑视 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · miǎn–mín (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 miè shì correctly.
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