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谣言

yáo yán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 謠言

谣言 (yáo yán) means "rumor". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 谣言 means

1. rumor

The characters in 谣言

• 谣yáopopular ballad; rumor
• 言yánwords; speech; to say

Example sentences

• 谣言是假的。
  The rumors were false.
• 谣言并无根据。
  The rumours were unfounded.
• 谣言说他辞职了。
  There is a rumor that he has resigned.
• 很多的谣言失败。
  Many predictions fail.
• 谣言被证明是假的。
  Yáoyán bèi zhèngmíng shì jiǎde.
  The rumor turned out false.
• 谣言是毫无根据的。
  The rumor was without foundation.

Words starting with 谣言

• 谣言惑众yáo yán huò zhòngto mislead the public with rumors; to delude the people with lies

Where 谣言 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yàng–yáo (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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