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鼓励

gǔ lì

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

鼓励 (gǔ lì) means "to encourage". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 鼓励 means

1. to encourage

The characters in 鼓励

• 鼓gǔdrum; to drum; to strike
• 励lìto encourage; to urge

Example sentences

• 多多鼓励他人。
  Duōduō gǔlì tārén.
  Encourage others.
• 没有人鼓励她。
  No one encouraged her.
• 没有人鼓励他。
  Nobody encouraged him.
• 汤姆需要鼓励。
  Tom needs encouragement.
• 我点头以示鼓励。
  I nodded encouragingly.
• 他点头以示鼓励。
  He nodded encouragingly.

Sounds the same

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

• 股利dividend
• 古丽Gül (common female Uyghur name)
• 骨力(Chinese calligraphy) vigor of brushstrokes; fortitude; toughness; spine
• 骨立(literary) emaciated; bony
• 谷粒grain (of cereal)
• 股栗(literary) to tremble with fear

Where 鼓励 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Attitudes & opinions (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 gǔ lì correctly.
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