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谷物

gǔ wù

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

谷物 (gǔ wù) means "cereal; grain". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 谷物 means

1. cereal
2. grain

The characters in 谷物

• 谷gǔgrain; corn
• 物wù(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…

Example sentences

• 黑麦被称为贫穷的谷物。
  Hēimài bèi chēngwéi pínqióng de gǔwù.
  Rye was called the grain of poverty.

Words containing 谷物

• 全谷物quán gǔ wùwhole grain

Sounds the same

Read gǔ wù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 古物antique

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