Dictionary › 贬值

贬值

biǎn zhí

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

贬值 (biǎn zhí) means "to become devaluated; to devaluate; to depreciate". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 贬值 means

1. to become devaluated
2. to devaluate
3. to depreciate

The characters in 贬值

• 贬biǎnto diminish; to demote; to reduce or devaluate
• 值zhívalue; (to be) worth; to happen to

Example sentences

• 随着通货膨胀的发展美元贬值了。
  Suízhe tōnghuòpéngzhàng de fāzhǎn Měiyuán biǎnzhí le.
  The value of the dollar declines as the rate of inflation rises.

Words containing 贬值

• 货币贬值huò bì biǎn zhícurrency devaluation; to devaluate a currency

Sounds the same

Read biǎn zhí, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 贬职to demote

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read biǎn zhí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.