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避暑

bì shǔ

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

避暑 (bì shǔ) means "to be away for the summer holidays; to spend a holiday at a summer resort; to prevent sunstroke". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 避暑 means

1. to be away for the summer holidays
2. to spend a holiday at a summer resort
3. to prevent sunstroke

The characters in 避暑

• 避bìto avoid; to shun; to flee
• 暑shǔheat; hot weather; summer heat

Example sentences

• 他们去了爱丁堡避暑。
  Tāmen qù le àidīngbǎo bìshǔ.
  They went to Edinburgh to escape from the summer heat.
• 轻井泽是着名的避暑胜地。
  Karuizawa is famous as a summer resort.

Words starting with 避暑

• 避暑山庄bì shǔ shān zhuāngmountain resort; Qing imperial summer residence at Chengde, a world heritage site

Sounds the same

Read bì shǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 避署to go on summer vacation

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bì shǔ correctly.
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