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诚意

chéng yì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 誠意

诚意 (chéng yì) means "sincerity; good faith". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 诚意 means

1. sincerity; good faith

The characters in 诚意

• 诚chéng(bound form) sincere; authentic; (literary) really; truly
• 意yì(bound form) idea; thought; meaning; sense; (bound form) intention; feeling; inclination…

Example sentences

• “巧言令色，鲜矣仁”这句说话，用来形容他最适合不过了。他说的话，没有一句是有诚意的。
  “ qiǎoyánlìngsè, xiān yǐ rén ” zhè jù shuōhuà, yònglái xíngróng tā zuì shìhé bùguò le. tā shuō dehuà, méiyǒu yījù shì yǒu chéngyì de.
  They say fine words are no virtue if they're insincere and that's him in a nutshell. He's all talk but doesn't mean a word of it.
• 「巧言令色，鲜矣仁」这句说话，用来形容他最适合不过了。他说的话，没有一句是有诚意的。
  They say fine words are no virtue if they're insincere and that's him in a nutshell. He's all talk but doesn't mean a word of it.

Sounds the same

Read chéng yì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 城邑(literary) towns; cities

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chéng yì correctly.
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