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风筝

fēng zheng

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

风筝 (fēng zhēng) means "kite". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 风筝 means

1. kite (lit. "wind zither", traditionally explained as being named after kites fitted with bamboo whistles that produced musical sounds when flown)

The characters in 风筝

• 风fēngwind; news; style
• 筝zhēngsee 古筝

Example sentences

• 他擅长放风筝。
  He's good at flying kites.
• 让我们放风筝。
  Let's fly a kite.
• 孩子们在放风筝。
  The children were flying kites.
• 我的风筝在哪里？
  Where are my kites?
• 有一只风筝在树上。
  There is a kite flying above the tree.
• 每年滨松有风筝节。
  Each year Hamamatsu has a kite festival.

Words starting with 风筝

• 风筝冲浪fēng zheng chōng làngkitesurfing

Words containing 风筝

• 断线风筝duàn xiàn fēng zhēnga kite that is lost after its string breaks (metaphor for sb one never hears from anymore)

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fēng zheng correctly.
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