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赤道

chì dào

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

赤道 (chì dào) means "equator (of the earth or a celestial body); celestial equator". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 赤道 means

1. equator (of the earth or a celestial body)
2. celestial equator

The characters in 赤道

• 赤chìred; scarlet; bare
• 道dàoroad; path; (bound form) way; reason; principle; (bound form) a skill; an art…

Example sentences

• 那条船昨天穿过了赤道。
  Nà tiáo chuán zuótiān chuānguò le chìdào.
  That ship crossed the equator yesterday.
• 赤道把地球分为两个半球。
  Chìdào bǎ dìqiú fēnwéi liǎng gè bànqiú.
  The equator divides the globe into two hemispheres.
• 我去澳大利亚旅游的时候第一次穿越了赤道。
  Wǒqù àodàlìyà lǚyóu de shíhou dìyīcì chuānyuè le chìdào.
  I crossed the equator for the first time on my trip to Australia.
• 在未来，赤道附近的居民很有可能成为气候难民。
  In the future, people who live in equatorial regions will probably be climate refugees.
• 位处赤道附近一个狭窄区域的热带雨林，正在不断地遭受人类的破坏，预计在二零零零年之前，该区域将会有五分之四的热带雨林从地球上消失。
  Wèi chǔ chìdào fùjìn yī gè xiázhǎi qūyù de rèdàiyǔlín, zhèngzài bù duàn de zāoshòu rénlèi de pòhuài, yùjì zài èr líng líng líng nián zhīqián, gāi qūyù jiānghuì yǒu wǔ fēnzhī sì de rèdàiyǔlín cóng dìqiú shàng xiāoshī.
  The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.
• 1910 年至 1980 年间，世界大部分地区都在变暖，而赤道以南安第斯山脉附近的一些地区实际上却在变冷，之后直到 20 世纪 90 年代中期才发生了变化。
  As most of the world was warming up between 1910 and 1980, some areas south of the equator near the Andes were actually cooling down, and then afterwards had no change at all until the middle 1990s.

Words starting with 赤道

• 赤道仪chì dào yíequatorial mount (for a telescope)
• 赤道雨林chì dào yǔ línequatorial rain forest
• 赤道几内亚Chì dào Jǐ nèi yàEquatorial Guinea
• 赤道逆流chì dào nì liúequatorial counter current

Words containing 赤道

• 反赤道流fǎn chì dào liúequatorial counter current
• 天球赤道tiān qiú chì dàocelestial equator

Where 赤道 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 dào correctly.
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