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预言

yù yán

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 預言

预言 (yù yán) means "to predict; prophecy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 预言 means

1. to predict
2. prophecy

The characters in 预言

• 预yùto advance; in advance; beforehand
• 言yánwords; speech; to say

Example sentences

• 她有预言的能力。
  Tā yǒu yùyán de nénglì.
  She has a gift for prophecy.
• 你的预言成真了。
  Nǐ de yùyán chéngzhēn le.
  Your prophecy has come true.
• 我的预言是真确的。
  My prediction was accurate.
• 我不能预言会发生什么。
  Wǒ bù néng yùyán huì fāshēng shénme.
  I can't predict what'll happen.
• 预言被实验结果推翻了。
  Yùyán bèi shíyàn jiéguǒ tuīfān le.
  The prediction was falsified by the result.
• 我不能预言会发生甚么。
  I can't predict what'll happen.

Words starting with 预言

• 预言家yù yán jiāprophet

Sounds the same

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

• 寓言fable; allegory; parable
• 浴盐bath salts

Where 预言 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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