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压力

yā lì 1–4

pressure

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
压 · 力
Syllables
2
yā lì
Frequency
Common
corpus count 981

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 压yā6 strokesHSK 3 traditional 壓press; oppress; crush; pressure
  • 力lì2 strokesHSK 2power, capability, influence; Kangxi radical 19

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我最近压力有点大。

    Wǒ zuì jìn yā lì yǒu diǎn dà

    I've been under a lot of pressure lately.

  • 我总是觉得压力很大。

    Wǒ zǒng shì jué de yā lì hěn dà

    I'm always under stress.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 压力. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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