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象棋

xiàng qí

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Measure word 副

象棋 (xiàng qí) means "Chinese chess". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 象棋 means

1. Chinese chess

The characters in 象棋

• 象xiàngelephant; shape; form
• 棋qíchess; chess-like game; a game of chess

Example sentences

• 我们下象棋吧。
  Let's play chess.
• 你比我更会下象棋。
  You're a better chess player than me.
• 没有人想和我下象棋。
  Nobody wants to play chess with me.
• 您能教我下国际象棋吗？
  Nín néng jiāo wǒ xià guójì xiàngqí ma?
  Can you teach me to play chess?
• 汤姆下国际象棋比我好。
  Tāngmǔ xià guójì xiàngqí bǐ wǒ hǎo.
  Tom plays chess better than me.
• 约翰国际象棋下得很好。
  John is good at chess.

Words starting with 象棋

• 象棋赛xiàng qí sàiChinese chess tournament

Words containing 象棋

• 国际象棋guó jì xiàng qíchess

Where 象棋 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Cleverness, Skill & Chess (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 xiàng qí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.