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长辈

zhǎng bèi

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 長輩

长辈 (zhǎng bèi) means "one's elders". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 长辈 means

1. one's elders
2. older generation

The characters in 长辈

• 长chánglong; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte
• 辈bèilifetime; generation; group of people

Example sentences

• 我尊敬长辈。
  Wǒ zūnjìng zhǎngbèi.
  I respect the elderly.
• Tom尊敬他的长辈。
  T om zūnjìng tā de zhǎngbèi.
  Tom respects his elders.
• 你竟敢这样对长辈说话？！
  Nǐ jìnggǎn zhèyàng duì zhǎngbèi shuōhuà?!
  How dare you speak like that to your elders and betters!

Words starting with 长辈

• 长辈图zhǎng bèi tú(net slang) boomer meme (Tw)

Where 长辈 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhàn–zhǎo (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.
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