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简直

jiǎn zhí

HSK 3 · word 1578 of 3,000

Meaning

Example sentence

那顿饭简直好极了。

nà dùn fàn jiǎn zhí hǎo jí le

That meal was simply divine.

Characters in 简直

简 simple plus 直, straight. Put plainly and straight, hence simply — an intensifier, not a description.

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