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轻视

qīng shì

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 輕視

轻视 (qīng shì) means "contempt; contemptuous; to despise". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 轻视 means

1. contempt
2. contemptuous
3. to despise
4. to scorn
5. scornful

The characters in 轻视

• 轻qīnglight; easy; gentle
• 视shì(literary, or bound form) to look at

Example sentences

• 不要轻视了对手。
  Bù yào qīngshì le duìshǒu.
  Don't hold your rival cheap.
• 另外一队轻视了我们。
  Lìngwài yī duì qīngshì le wǒmen.
  The other team took us lightly.

Where 轻视 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Attitude, Light Food & Contempt (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 qīng shì correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.