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表扬

biǎo yáng

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 表揚

表扬 (biǎo yáng) means "to praise". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 表扬 means

1. to praise
2. to commend

The characters in 表扬

• 表biǎoexterior surface; family relationship via females; to show (one's opinion)
• 扬yángto raise; to hoist; the action of tossing or winnowing

Example sentences

• 即使在受到表扬的时候，谦虚也是很重要的。
  Jíshǐ zài shòudào biǎoyáng de shíhou, qiānxū yě shì hěn zhòngyào de.
  Even when one is being praised, modesty is important.
• 小说家说谎并不是不道德的事。其实，谎话说得愈离谱、愈有技巧，就愈会受到公众和批评家的表扬。
  Xiǎoshuōjiā shuōhuǎng bìngbù shì bù dàodé de shì. qíshí, huǎnghuà shuō de yù lípǔ, yù yǒu jìqiǎo, jiù yù huì shòudào gōngzhòng hé pīpíngjiā de biǎoyáng.
  It's not immoral for a novelist to tell lies. In fact, the bigger the lies, the better lies, and the more the common folks and critics will praise you.

Where 表扬 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Attitudes & opinions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read biǎo yáng correctly.
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