HSK 6 · Money

次品 cìpǐn “defective product” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 次品 means

  1. defective product
  2. substandard goods
  3. substandard products
  4. defective
  5. seconds

How to say 次品

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale次cì4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale品pǐn3rd tone, dipping

次品 in a sentence

  1. 这批货里有不少次品。

    Zhè pī huò lǐ yǒu bùshǎo cìpǐn.

    There are quite a few defective products in this batch.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 商店不能把次品当正品卖。

    Shāngdiàn bùnéng bǎ cìpǐn dāng zhèngpǐn mài.

    Shops mustn’t sell substandard goods as perfect ones.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 次品 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 次 (cì) with each of its parts in a different colour
次cìnext in sequence
  • 冫ice · bīng
  • 欠yawn · qiàn
The character 品 (pǐn) with each of its parts in a different colour
品pǐnarticle; commodity; product; goods
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 次品

次 6 strokes · 品 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

次品 (cìpǐn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 次品 (cìpǐn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 次品

Words with 次

次cì · times其次qícì · next再次zàicì · once again次要cìyào · secondary次序cìxù · order屡次lǚcì · repeatedly层次céngcì · level档次dàngcì · grade名次míngcì · ranking

Words with 品

产品chǎnpǐn · product商品shāngpǐn · commodity作品zuòpǐn · work (of art)日用品rìyòngpǐn · articles for daily use品尝pǐncháng · to taste毒品dúpǐn · drugs品种pǐnzhǒng · variety样品yàngpǐn · sample品德pǐndé · moral character品质pǐnzhì · quality

More words: Money & Economy

成交chéngjiāo · to close a deal赤字chìzì · deficit储备chǔbèi · reserves储蓄chǔxù · savings担保dānbǎo · to guarantee淡季dànjì · off season倒闭dǎobì · to go bankrupt冻结dòngjié · to freeze (assets

FAQs

次品 (cìpǐn) means “defective product” or “substandard goods”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cìpǐn: cì with a 4th tone, then pǐn with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 次品 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cipin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 次品 from the suggestions. Typing cipin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
次品 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.