潜移默化

Pinyin
qiányí-mòhuà
English
Influence character by environment
HSK level
HSK 6

潜移默化 is pronounced qiányí-mòhuà and means “Influence character by environment”. It is one of the words in the HSK 6 vocabulary, a level of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s standardised Chinese proficiency test. Recognising a word on a page and recalling it when you need it are different skills, and only the second survives a conversation — which is why LexiTrail shows you 潜移默化 again just before you would have forgotten it, rather than on a fixed schedule.

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