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逊色

xùn sè

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

逊色 (xùn sè) means "inferior (often in the combination 毫无逊色, not in the least inferior)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 逊色 means

1. inferior (often in the combination 毫无逊色, not in the least inferior)

The characters in 逊色

• 逊xùnto abdicate; modest; yielding
• 色sècolor; look; appearance

Example sentences

• 简的美丽丝毫不逊色于她母亲。
  Jiǎn de měilì sīháo bù xùnsè yú tā mǔqīn.
  Jane is no less beautiful than her mother.
• 每个曾经与 AI 客服打交道的人都知道，AI 与真人相比有多么逊色。
  Everyone who has had to deal with AI customer service knows how inferior it is to actual humans.

Words containing 逊色

• 毫不逊色háo bù xùn sènot inferior in any respect
• 毫无逊色háo wú xùn sènot in the least inferior (idiom)

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