Fairly / rather with 比较

Structure 比较 + adjective

比较 (bǐjiào) before an adjective means "fairly / rather", a soft comparison without naming the other term: 今天比较冷 = "it’s rather cold today". It softens the adjective (less absolute than 很). Unlike 比, it needs no second term.

Examples

今jīn天tiān比bǐ较jiào冷lěng。
It’s fairly cold today.
这zhè个ge比bǐ较jiào便pián宜yi。
This one is fairly cheap.
中zhōng文wén比bǐ较jiào难nán。
Chinese is fairly hard.

Levels are indicative: they follow the standard Chinese Grammar Wiki (AllSet Learning) progression, not an official HSK 3.0 mapping. We never assign levels by eye.

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