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辽阔

liáo kuò

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

辽阔 (liáo kuò) means "vast; extensive". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 辽阔 means

1. vast; extensive

The characters in 辽阔

• 辽liáo(bound form) distant; faraway
• 阔kuòrich; wide; broad

Example sentences

• 巴西是一个幅员辽阔的国家。
  Brazil is a huge country.
• 中国幅员辽阔,因而茶的品种繁多。
  China's territory is vast, thus the types of tea vary.
• 不论黑暗如何辽阔，我们都必须提供自身的光明。
  Bù lùn hēi'àn rúhé liáokuò, wǒmen dōu bìxū tígōng zìshēn de guāngmíng.
  However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Sounds the same

Read liáo kuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 寥廓(literary) vast; boundless

Where 辽阔 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · liàng–lìn (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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