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重叠

chóng dié

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 重疊

重叠 (chóng dié) means "to overlap; to superimpose; to telescope". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 重叠 means

1. to overlap
2. to superimpose
3. to telescope
4. to run together
5. to duplicate
6. one over another
7. superposition
8. an overlap
9. redundancy
10. reduplication (in Chinese grammar, e.g. {散散步|sàn sàn bù} to have a stroll)

The characters in 重叠

• 重zhòngheavy; serious; to attach importance to
• 叠diéto pile up; (bound form) repeated; to fold

Example sentences

• 他们俩的影子重叠在一起。
  Tāmen liǎ de yǐngzi chóngdié zàiyīqǐ.
  Their two shadows overlap.

Words containing 重叠

• 动词重叠dòng cí chóng diéverb reduplication, used to soften tone or indicate a short action (e.g. 试一试
• 山峦重叠shān luán chóng diéoverlapping ranges of high mountains (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read chóng dié, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 重迭variant of 重叠

Where 重叠 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chóng–zhōu (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 chóng dié correctly.
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