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幸存

xìngcún

to survive

HSK 9 · Topic “Danger and Survival”
A person standing on a rock above flood water, holding a branch.
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Characters in this word

幸 xìng

Strokes
8
Radical
干 — arid, dry
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
More about the character 幸

存 cún

Strokes
6
Radical
子 — son, child
Made of
才 ability, talent, gift 子 son, child
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 在山体滑坡中幸存的村民后来成为重建工作的主要见证者。 Zài shāntǐ huápō zhōng xìngcún de cūnmín hòulái chéngwéi chóngjiàn gōngzuò de zhǔyào jiànzhèngzhě. The villagers who survived the landslide later became key witnesses to the reconstruction work.
  • 那场大火中，只有一棵老树幸存下来。 Nà chǎng dàhuǒ zhōng, zhǐyǒu yī kē lǎoshù xìngcún xiàlái. In that big fire, only one old tree survived.
  • 幸存的村民互相帮助，慢慢重建了家园。 Xìngcún de cūnmín hùxiāng bāngzhù, mànmàn chóngjiàn le jiāyuán. The surviving villagers helped one another and slowly rebuilt their homes.

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