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趋势

qū shì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 趨勢

趋势 (qū shì) means "trend; tendency". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 趋势 means

1. trend; tendency

The characters in 趋势

• 趋qūto hasten; to hurry; to walk fast
• 势shìpower; influence; potential

Example sentences

• 世界人口有上升的趋势。
  Shìjiè rénkǒu yǒu shàngshēng de qūshì.
  The world's population tends to increase.
• 她很了解最新的时尚趋势。
  Tā hěn liǎojiě zuì xīn de shíshàng qūshì.
  She knows a lot about the latest fashions.

Words containing 趋势

• 上升趋势shàng shēng qū shìan upturn; an upward trend
• 上扬趋势shàng yáng qū shìupward trend; tendency to increase

Where 趋势 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Goals, Catalogs & Present State (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read qū shì correctly.
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