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近视

jìn shì

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

近视 (jìn shì) means "shortsighted". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 近视 means

1. myopic; nearsighted
2. (fig.) shortsighted

The characters in 近视

• 近jìnnear; close to; approximately
• 视shì(literary, or bound form) to look at

Words starting with 近视

• 近视眼jìn shì yǎnnearsightedness; myopia

Words containing 近视

• 假性近视jiǎ xìng jìn shìpseudomyopia

Sounds the same

Read jìn shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 尽是to be full of; completely
• 进士successful candidate in the highest imperial civil service examination; palace graduate

Where 近视 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jìn (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.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jìn shì correctly.
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