正负

正负 zhèngfù in a sentence

Positive and negative†

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 2 sentences

正负 (zhèngfù) means Positive and negative †. Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

电池有 正负 两极。

Diànchí yǒu zhèngfù liǎng jí.

A battery has a positive and a negative pole.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 正负

这个数据的误差是 正负 两个百分点。

Zhège shùjù de wùchā shì zhèngfù liǎng ge bǎifēndiǎn.

The margin of error in this figure is plus or minus two percentage points.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 正负

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How is 正负 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 正负 (zhèngfù, "Positive and negative †"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 正负 an HSK word?

Yes — 正负 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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The dictionary page for 正负 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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