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课文

kè wén

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 課文 Measure word 篇

课文 (kè wén) means "a text in a textbook". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 课文 means

1. text

The characters in 课文

• 课kèsubject; course; class
• 文wénlanguage; culture; writing

Example sentences

• 请你读一下课文。
  Qǐng nǐ dú yīxià kèwén.
  Please read the passage.
• 我最讨厌背诵课文了。
  Wǒ zuì tǎoyàn bèisòng kèwén le.
  What I hate most of all is having to recite texts from memory.
• 我们已经有那篇课文了吗？
  Wǒmen yǐjīng yǒu nà piān kèwén le ma?
  Do we already have that text?
• 用自己的语言把课文内容复述。
  Yòng zìjǐ de yǔyán bǎ kèwén nèiróng fùshù.
  Use your own words to retell the content of the lesson.

Sounds the same

Read kè wén, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 克文Kevin (name)

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