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辨别

biàn bié

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 辨別

辨别 (biàn bié) means "to distinguish; to differentiate; to discern; to recognize; to tell". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 辨别 means

1. to distinguish; to differentiate; to discern; to recognize; to tell

The characters in 辨别

• 辨biànto distinguish; to recognize
• 别biéto leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish…

Example sentences

• 他无法辨别真伪。
  Tā wúfǎ biànbié zhēn wěi.
  He can't tell the true from the false.
• 我的字迹难以辨别。
  Wǒ de zìjì nányǐ biànbié.
  My handwriting is illegible.
• 我们无法辨别哪个更好。
  Wǒmen wúfǎ biànbié nǎge gèng hǎo.
  We can't tell which is better.
• 你能辨别小麦和大麦吗？
  Nǐ néng biànbié xiǎomài hé dàmài ma?
  Can you tell wheat from barley?
• 她不知道如何辨别善与恶。
  She doesn't know how to tell the difference between good and evil.
• 古代的探险家用星星来辨别方向。
  Early explorers used the stars for navigation.

Words starting with 辨别

• 辨别力biàn bié lìdiscrimination; power of discrimination

Sounds the same

Read biàn bié, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 辩别variant of 辨别

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