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预示

yù shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 預示

预示 (yù shì) means "to indicate; to foretell; to forebode". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 预示 means

1. to indicate
2. to foretell
3. to forebode
4. to betoken

The characters in 预示

• 预yùto advance; in advance; beforehand
• 示shìto show; to reveal

Example sentences

• 这个消息预示着什么？
  Zhège xiāoxi yùshì zhe shénme?
  What does this news augur?
• 这个消息预示着什幺？
  What does this news augur?
• 确实，这组作品有一个值得关注的特点：尽管它带有浪漫色彩、采用伊丽莎白时代的形式，却已预示了英国戏剧即将朝向以「写实」方式呈现生活的方向发展。
  Indeed, a remarkable aspect of the group is the way in which, despite its romantic tone and its Elizabethan form, it yet foreshadows the movement that English drama was about to make toward a ‘realistic’ presentment of life.

Sounds the same

Read yù shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 浴室bathroom; shower room; bathhouse
• 预试pretest
• 谕示to issue a directive; to instruct (that sth be done)

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yù shì correctly.
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