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顺序

shùn xù

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 順序

顺序 (shùn xù) means "sequence". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 顺序 means

1. sequence
2. order

The characters in 顺序

• 顺shùnto obey; to follow; to arrange
• 序xù(bound form) order; sequence; (bound form) introductory; initial; preface

Example sentences

• 你能把这清单按字母顺序排列吗？
  Could you rearrange this list so it's in alphabetical order?
• 我们应该把学生的名字跟着字母顺序来安排。
  Wǒmen yīnggāi bǎ xuésheng de míngzi gēnzhe zìmǔ shùnxù lái ānpái.
  We should sort the students' names alphabetically.
• 绝大多数我所认识的高中学生，无法读一个他们不认识的字和以正确的顺序来发音字母，更不用说正确或自然地发音了。
  Juédàduōshù wǒ suǒ rènshi de gāozhōngxuéshēng, wúfǎ dú yī gè tāmen bù rènshi de zì hé yǐ zhèngquè de shùnxù lái fāyīn zìmǔ, gèng bùyòngshuō zhèngquè huò zìrán de fāyīn le.
  The vast majority of high school students I know can't read an unknown word and pronounce the letters in the right order, let alone pronounce it correctly or naturally.

Words starting with 顺序

• 顺序数shùn xù shùordinal number

Words containing 顺序

• 先后顺序xiān hòu shùn xùsequential order
• 字母顺序zì mǔ shùn xùalphabetical order

Sounds the same

Read shùn xù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 顺叙chronological narration

Where 顺序 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Time adverbs & temporal expressions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shùn xù correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.