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鄙视

bǐ shì

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

鄙视 (bǐ shì) means "to despise; to disdain; to look down upon". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 鄙视 means

1. to despise
2. to disdain
3. to look down upon

The characters in 鄙视

• 鄙bǐrustic; low; base
• 视shì(literary, or bound form) to look at

Example sentences

• 我鄙视你。
  I despise you.
• 他否认鄙视了她
  Tā fǒurèn bǐshì le tā
  He denied he despised her.
• 他否认鄙视了她。
  He denied he despised her.
• 连他的仆人都鄙视他
  Lián tā de púrén dōu bǐshì tā
  Even his servants despised him.
• 他鄙视那个小伙子。
  Tā bǐshì nàge xiǎohuǒzi.
  She scorned the boy.

Words starting with 鄙视

• 鄙视链bǐ shì liàna ranking of items in a particular category, with the most highly regarded on top…

Sounds the same

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

• 笔试written examination; paper test (for an applicant)
• 比试to have a competition; to measure with one's hand or arm; to make a gesture of measuring

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bǐ shì correctly.
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