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闪烁

shǎn shuò

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

闪烁 (shǎn shuò) means "flickering; twinkling; evasive". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 闪烁 means

1. to glisten; to glitter; to twinkle; to flicker
2. to be evasive; to equivocate

The characters in 闪烁

• 闪shǎnto dodge; to duck out of the way; to beat it
• 烁shuòbright; luminous

Example sentences

• 阳光在湖面上闪烁。
  Sunlight sparkled on the lake.
• 无数星星在天上闪烁。
  Wúshù xīngxing zài tiānshàng shǎnshuò.
  Countless stars were twinkling in the sky.
• 我只能看到闪烁的灯光。
  All I could see was the flickering lights.
• 她的眼睛闪烁着喜悦的光芒。
  Tā de yǎnjing shǎnshuò zhe xǐyuè de guāngmáng.
  Her eyes were shining with joy.
• 当她看到妈妈没在生她的气，她的双眼因为幸福而闪烁了。
  Dāng tā kàn dào māma méi zài shēng tā de qì, tā de shuāngyǎn yīnwèi xìngfú ér shǎnshuò le.
  Her eyes shone with joy when she saw that her mother was not mad at her.
• 这女孩的眼睛闪烁着光亮, 这个暗示让她可爱的猫图案自动铅笔越过了她的笔记本。
  Zhè nǚhái de yǎnjing shǎnshuò zhe guāngliàng, zhège ànshì ràng tā kě'ài de māo tú'àn zìdòngqiānbǐ yuèguò le tā de bǐjìběn.
  The girl, her eyes shining brightly from that single hint, makes her cute cat-motif automatic pencil run across her notebook.

Words starting with 闪烁

• 闪烁体shǎn shuò tǐ(physics) scintillator
• 闪烁其词shǎn shuò qí cíto speak evasively (idiom); beating about the bush

Words containing 闪烁

• 金光闪烁jīn guāng shǎn shuòspangle

Sounds the same

Read shǎn shuò, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 闪铄variant of 闪烁

Where 闪烁 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · chà–shǎn (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 shǎn shuò correctly.
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