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锲而不舍

qiè ér bù shě

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 鍥而不捨

锲而不舍 (qiè ér bù shě) means "to chip away at a task and not abandon it (idiom); to chisel away at sth; to persevere; unflagging efforts". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 锲而不舍 means

1. to chip away at a task and not abandon it (idiom); to chisel away at sth
2. to persevere
3. unflagging efforts

The characters in 锲而不舍

• 锲qièto cut; to carve; to engrave
• 而érand; as well as; and so
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 舍shěto give up; to abandon; to give alms

Where 锲而不舍 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · qiè–qīn (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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