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xìng

HSK 3 · word 2032 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

Example sentence

他天性善良。

tā tiān xìng shàn liáng

He's good by nature.

The character 性

is , the heart, beside : the nature a thing is born with. 性格 character, 个性 personality, 性质 the nature of something — and as a suffix it builds abstract nouns the way English -ity does.

Words containing 性

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