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飞禽走兽

fēi qín zǒu shòu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 飛禽走獸

飞禽走兽 (fēi qín zǒu shòu) means "birds and animals; the beasts of the field and the birds of the air". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 飞禽走兽 means

1. idiombirds and animals

The characters in 飞禽走兽

• 飞fēito fly
• 禽qín(bound form) birds; fowl; (literary) birds and animals; old variant of 擒
• 走zǒuto walk; to go; to run
• 兽shòubeast; animal; beastly

Example sentences

• 君子对于飞禽走兽，见到它们活着，便不忍心见到它们死；听到它们哀叫，便不忍心吃它们的肉。
  Jūnzǐ duìyú fēiqínzǒushòu, jiàndào tāmen huózhe, biàn bù rěnxīn jiàndào tāmen sǐ; tīngdào tāmen āi jiào, biàn bù rěnxīn chī tāmen de ròu.
  The superior man is affected towards animals: having seen them alive, he cannot bear to see them die; having heard their cries, he cannot bear to eat their flesh.

Where 飞禽走兽 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fàng–fēn (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fēi qín zǒu shòu correctly.
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