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迎面

yíng miàn

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

迎面 (yíng miàn) means "directly; head-on (collision); in one's face (of wind)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 迎面 means

1. directly; head-on (collision)
2. (of wind) in one's face

The characters in 迎面

• 迎yíngto welcome; to meet; to forge ahead (esp. in the face of difficulties)…
• 面miànface; side; surface

Example sentences

• 他没有看见十字路口的停止标志，和一辆迎面而来的汽车撞个正着。
  Tā méiyǒu kànjiàn shízìlùkǒu de tíngzhǐ biāozhì, hé yī liàng yíngmiàn'érlái de qìchē zhuàng gè zhèngzháo.
  He failed to see the stop sign at the intersection and hit an oncoming car.

Words starting with 迎面

• 迎面而来yíng miàn ér láidirectly; head-on (collision); in one's face (of wind)

Sounds the same

Read yíng miàn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 赢面chance of winning

Where 迎面 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yíng miàn correctly.
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