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语气

yǔ qì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 語氣 Measure word 个

语气 (yǔ qì) means "tone/attitude of speech". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 语气 means

1. tone
2. manner of speaking
3. mood

The characters in 语气

• 语yǔdialect; language; speech
• 气qìgas; air; smell; weather

Words starting with 语气

• 语气词yǔ qì címodal particle
• 语气助词yǔ qì zhù címodal particle

Words containing 语气

• 加重语气jiā zhòng yǔ qìto give emphasis; with emphasis
• 反问语气fǎn wèn yǔ qìtone of one's voice when asking a rhetorical question
• 假设语气jiǎ shè yǔ qìsubjunctive
• 虚拟语气xū nǐ yǔ qìsubjunctive mood (grammar)

Where 语气 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Reading, Poetry & Sound (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 yǔ qì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.