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运行

yùn xíng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 運行

运行 (yùn xíng) means "to move along one's course (of celestial bodies etc)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 运行 means

1. (of celestial bodies etc) to move along one's course
2. (fig.) to function; to be in operation
3. (of a train service etc) to operate; to run
4. (of a computer) to run

The characters in 运行

• 运yùnto move; to transport; to use
• 行xíng(bound form) to walk; to go; to travel; (literary) trip; journey; visit…

Example sentences

• 程式正常运行。
  It's working just fine.
• 这是怎么运行的？
  Zhè shì zěnme yùnxíng de?
  How does this work?
• 系统运行起来了。
  Xìtǒng yùnxíng qǐlai le.
  The system worked.
• 你的新电脑运行得好吗？
  Nǐ de xīn diànnǎo yùnxíng de hǎo ma?
  Does your new computer run well?
• 许多卫星绕着土星运行。
  Xǔduō wèixīng rào zhe Tǔxīng yùnxíng.
  Many moons orbit around Saturn.
• 火狐浏览器程序已停止运行。
  Firefox crashed.

Words starting with 运行

• 运行时yùn xíng shí(computing) runtime
• 运行方式yùn xíng fāng shìoperating method; running mode
• 运行时错误yùn xíng shí cuò wùrun-time error (in computing)

Words containing 运行

• 退出运行tuì chū yùn xíngto decommission
• 托运行李tuō yùn xíng liluggage that has been checked in (on flight)

Where 运行 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yù–yùn (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 yùn xíng correctly.
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