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青春

qīng chūn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

青春 (qīng chūn) means "youth (the life stage)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 青春 means

1. youth
2. youthfulness

The characters in 青春

• 青qīnggreen; blue; black
• 春chūnspring (season); gay; joyful

Example sentences

• 青春只有一次。
  Qīngchūn zhǐ yǒuyīcì.
  Youth comes but once in life.
• 她怀念自己的青春岁月。
  She pines for the days of her youth.
• 他是由跑步保养青春的活力。
  Tā shì yóu pǎobù bǎoyǎng qīngchūn de huólì.
  He keeps his youth by jogging.
• 当我们回眸青春，仿佛有一种说不出的痛。
  When we look back at our youth, there seems to be an indescribable pain.
• 很多人问我，青春的诀别是否意味着年迈的将近。
  Hěn duō rén wèn wǒ, qīngchūn de juébié shìfǒu yìwèizhe niánmài de jiāngjìn.
  A lot of people ask me whether bidding goodbye to youth means old age is near.
• 汤姆为自己浪费了大好的青春年华感到非常后悔。
  Tom regretted having wasted a great deal of his life.

Words starting with 青春

• 青春期qīng chūn qīpuberty; adolescence
• 青春痘qīng chūn dòuacne
• 青春不再qīng chūn bù zàilit. one's youth will never return; to make the most of one's opportunities (idiom)
• 青春永驻qīng chūn yǒng zhùto stay young forever
• 青春豆qīng chūn dòuacne

Words containing 青春

• 吃青春饭chī qīng chūn fànto make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)

Where 青春 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Youth, Adolescence & Naivety (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 qīng chūn correctly.
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