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鲁莽

lǔ mǎng

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

鲁莽 (lǔ mǎng) means "hot-headed; impulsive; reckless". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 鲁莽 means

1. hot-headed; impulsive; reckless

The characters in 鲁莽

• 鲁lǔ(bound form) crass; stupid; rude
• 莽mǎng(bound form) dense growth of grass; (literary) vast; boundless; (bound form) boorish…

Example sentences

• 请原谅我的鲁莽。
  Qǐng yuánliàng wǒ de lǔmǎng.
  Please excuse me for being rude.
• 她比较鲁莽的相信了他。
  Tā bǐjiào lǔmǎng de xiāngxìn le tā.
  It was reckless of her to trust him.
• 鲁莽的开车容易造成交通事故
  Lǔmǎng de kāichē róngyì zàochéng jiāotōng shìgù
  Reckless driving can easily lead to an accident.
• 他去年在事故中幸存了，可是他仍然很鲁莽地开车。
  Tā qùnián zài shìgù zhōng xìngcún le, kěshì tā réngrán hěn lǔmǎng de kāichē.
  He survived an accident last year, but still drives recklessly.

Sounds the same

Read lǔ mǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 卤莽variant of 鲁莽

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lǔ mǎng correctly.
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