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装饰

zhuāng shì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 裝飾

装饰 (zhuāng shì) means "to decorate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 装饰 means

1. to decorate
2. decoration
3. decorative
4. ornamental

The characters in 装饰

• 装zhuāngadornment; to adorn; dress
• 饰shìdecoration; ornament; to decorate

Example sentences

• 她用绘画来装饰墙。
  Tā yòng huìhuà lái zhuāngshì qiáng.
  She decorated the wall with pictures.
• 他们把房子装饰了一下。
  Tāmen bǎ fángzi zhuāngshì le yīxià.
  They decorated the room.
• 汤姆帮助玛莉装饰圣诞树。
  Tom helped Mary decorate her Christmas tree.
• 她用玫瑰花装饰了她的房间。
  Tā yòng méiguīhuā zhuāngshì le tā de fángjiān.
  She decorated her room with roses.
• 许多人都会在圣诞节期间装饰自己的家。
  Many people decorate their homes for Christmas.
• 你可以用一个樱桃或菠萝来装饰这杯鸡尾酒。
  Nǐ kěyǐ yòng yī gè yīngtáo huò bōluó lái zhuāngshì zhè bēi jīwěijiǔ.
  You can decorate the cocktail with a cherry or a pineapple.

Words starting with 装饰

• 装饰品zhuāng shì pǐnornament
• 装饰物zhuāng shì wùornament; ornamentation
• 装饰道具zhuāng shì dào jù(theater) set dressing; trim prop

Sounds the same

Read zhuāng shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 妆饰to dress up

Where 装饰 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Decoration, Status & Conditions (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 zhuāng shì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.