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赤字

chì zì

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

赤字 (chì zì) means "(financial) deficit; red letter". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 赤字 means

1. (financial) deficit
2. red letter

The characters in 赤字

• 赤chìred; scarlet; bare
• 字zìletter; symbol; character

Example sentences

• 我们去年遇到了赤字。
  We went into the red last year.
• 这场生意正面临着赤字。
  Zhè chǎng shēngyi zhèng miànlín zhe chìzì.
  The business is in the red.
• 我们公司今季的赤字上涨了差不多一成。
  Wǒmen gōngsī jīn jì de chìzì shàngzhǎng le chàbuduō yī chéng.
  Our surplus has swelled by nearly ten percent in this quarter.
• 在这种困难的时候，任何寻常的努力都无法使我们的公司摆脱赤字。
  Zài zhèzhǒng kùnnan de shíhou, rènhé xúncháng de nǔlì dōu wúfǎ shǐ wǒmen de gōngsī bǎituō chìzì.
  In hard times like this, no ordinary effort can get our company out of the red.

Words starting with 赤字

• 赤字累累chì zì lěi lěidebt-ridden; heavily laden with debt

Where 赤字 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chì zì correctly.
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