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马力

mǎ lì

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

马力 (mǎ lì) means "horsepower". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 马力 means

1. horsepower

The characters in 马力

• 马mǎhorse; horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess; knight in Western chess
• 力lìpower; force; strength

Example sentences

• 马力很可爱，不是么？
  Mǎlì hěn kě'ài, bù shì me?
  Mary is very cute, isn't she?
• 马力很可爱，不是幺？
  Mary is very cute, isn't she?
• 路遥知马力，日久见人心。
  It's in times like these that the character of a person becomes apparent.

Words containing 马力

• 加足马力jiā zú mǎ lìto go at full throttle; (fig.) to go all out; to kick into high gear
• 开足马力kāi zú mǎ lìto accelerate at full power (idiom); at full speed; fig. to work as hard as possible
• 圣马力诺Shèng mǎ lì nuòSan Marino
• 匹马力pǐ mǎ lìhorsepower
• 路遥知马力，日久见人心lù yáo zhī mǎ lì , rì jiǔ jiàn rén xīnjust as distance determines the stamina of a horse, so does time reveal a person's true…

Sounds the same

Read mǎ lì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 玛丽Mary or Marie (name); Mali
• 马利Mali (Tw)

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mǎ lì correctly.
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