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起哄

qǐ hòng

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

起哄 (qǐ hòng) means "to heckle; rowdy jeering; to create a disturbance". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 起哄 means

1. to heckle
2. rowdy jeering
3. to create a disturbance

The characters in 起哄

• 起qǐto rise; to raise; to get up
• 哄hōngroar of laughter (onom.); hubbub; to roar (as a crowd)

Where 起哄 is taught

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

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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