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除夕

Chú xī

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

除夕 (chú xī) means "lunar New Year's Eve". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 除夕 means

1. lunar New Year's Eve

The characters in 除夕

• 除chúto get rid of; to remove; to exclude
• 夕xī(bound form) sunset; dusk; (bound form) evening; night; Taiwan pr. xì

Example sentences

• 尤其是在中国北方，包饺子、吃饺子，已经成为大多数家庭欢度除夕的一个重要活动。
  Yóuqí shì zài Zhōngguó běifāng, bāo jiǎozi, chī jiǎozi, yǐjīng chéngwéi dàduōshù jiātíng huāndù Chúxī de yī gè zhòngyào huódòng.
  Especially in northern China, wrapping and eating dumplings has become an important activity for happily spending New Year's Eve in many households.

Words containing 除夕

• 小除夕xiǎo chú xīthe day before New Year's Eve

Sounds the same

Read Chú xī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 除息(finance) ex-dividend; to go ex-dividend

Where 除夕 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Festivals, Traditions & Cultural History (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 Chú xī correctly.
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