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骄傲

jiāo ào

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 驕傲

骄傲 (jiāo ào) means "proud / arrogant". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 骄傲 means

1. pride
2. arrogance
3. conceited
4. proud of sth

The characters in 骄傲

• 骄jiāoproud; arrogant
• 傲àoproud; arrogant; to despise

Example sentences

• 骄傲使人落后。
  Pride goes before a fall.
• 我真为她骄傲。
  I'm so proud of her.
• 我一直为您骄傲。
  I've always been proud of you.
• 骄傲是人类的弱点。
  Jiāo'ào shì rénlèi de ruòdiǎn.
  Human pride is human weakness.
• 我为哥哥感到骄傲。
  I'm proud of my older brother.
• 他为他的妻子骄傲。
  He's proud of his wife.

Words containing 骄傲

• 虚心使人进步，骄傲使人落后xū xīn shǐ rén jìn bù , jiāo ào shǐ rén luò hòumodesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)

Where 骄傲 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personality & character traits (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiāo ào correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.