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骇人听闻

hài rén tīng wén

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 駭人聽聞

骇人听闻 (hài rén tīng wén) means "shocking; horrifying; atrocious". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 骇人听闻 means

1. shocking
2. horrifying
3. atrocious
4. terrible

The characters in 骇人听闻

• 骇hàito astonish; to startle; to hack (computing, loanword)
• 人rénperson; people
• 听tīngto listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin")
• 闻wénto hear; news; well-known

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