精神

HSK 5#640 by frequencyradical 米

jīng shen["n"]

vigor; vitality; drive; spiritual

jīng shén["n"]

spirit; mind; consciousness; thought; mental; psychological; essence; gist

Measure word: 个

Examples

他精神很好。

He was in good spirits.

真是精神可嘉！

That's the spirit!

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.