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走私

zǒu sī

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

走私 (zǒu sī) means "to smuggle; to have an illicit affair". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 走私 means

1. to smuggle
2. to have an illicit affair

The characters in 走私

• 走zǒuto walk; to go; to run
• 私sīpersonal; private; selfish

Example sentences

• 警察以走私为由逮捕了他。
  Jǐngchá yǐ zǒusī wèi yóu dàibǔ le tā.
  The police arrested him for smuggling.

Words starting with 走私

• 走私品zǒu sī pǐnsmuggled product; contraband; pirate product
• 走私货zǒu sī huòsmuggled goods

Words containing 走私

• 反走私fǎn zǒu sīto oppose smuggling; anti-contraband (measures, policy etc)

Where 走私 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zǐ–zǒu (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 zǒu sī correctly.
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