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陌生

mò shēng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

陌生 (mò shēng) means "strange, unfamiliar". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 陌生 means

1. strange; unfamiliar

The characters in 陌生

• 陌mòraised path; street
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)

Example sentences

• 狗会对陌生人叫。
  A dog will bark at strangers.
• 风景对我来说很陌生。
  Fēngjǐng duìwǒláishuō hěn mòshēng.
  The landscape is unfamiliar to me.
• 一个陌生人进了大楼。
  A stranger came into the building.
• 这只狗对着陌生人叫。
  The dog barked at the stranger.
• 汤姆和一堆陌生人在一起
  Tāngmǔ hé yīduī mòshēngrén zàiyīqǐ
  Tom was with a bunch of strangers.
• 她盯着可疑的陌生人看。
  Tā dīng zhe kěyí de mòshēngrén kàn.
  She stared at the suspicious strangers.

Words starting with 陌生

• 陌生人mò shēng rénstranger

Where 陌生 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Appearance & Physical Description (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mò shēng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.