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讽刺

fěng cì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 諷刺

讽刺 (fěng cì) means "to satirize; to mock; irony". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 讽刺 means

1. to satirize
2. to mock
3. irony
4. satire
5. sarcasm

The characters in 讽刺

• 讽fěngto satirize; to mock; to recite
• 刺cìthorn; sting; thrust

Example sentences

• 你不觉得这个名字很讽刺吗，“神圣的战争”？
  Nǐ bù juéde zhège míngzi hěn fěngcì ma,“ shénshèng de zhànzhēng ”?
  Don't you think the name "The Sacred War" sounds a bit sarcastic?
• 你不觉得这个名字很讽刺吗，「神圣的战争」？
  Don't you think the name "The Sacred War" sounds a bit sarcastic?
• 作家路易斯・费尔南多・沃瑞西莫在巴西阿雷格里港去世，他是位专栏作家，能以讽刺、精确、敏感的文笔团结几代读者。
  Writer Luiz Fernando Veríssimo, a columnist capable of uniting generations of readers with irony, precision and sensitivity, died in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Where 讽刺 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Argumentation, Debate & Criticism (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 fěng cì correctly.
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