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防治

fáng zhì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

防治 (fáng zhì) means "to prevent and cure". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 防治 means

1. to prevent and cure
2. prevention and cure

The characters in 防治

• 防fángto protect; to defend; to guard against
• 治zhìto rule; to govern; to manage

Words containing 防治

• 生物防治shēng wù fáng zhìbiological control

Sounds the same

Read fáng zhì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 防制(Taiwan) to combat (bullying, money laundering etc); to counter

Where 防治 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fàn–fǎn (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 fáng zhì correctly.
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