Generally, men are taller than women.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
一般来说
generally speaking
IN A VIDEO一般来说
See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.
DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
generally speaking
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 一般来说 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 一般来说 appears in 16 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom usually doesn't cry.
Wolves won't usually attack people.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 一般来说.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 一般来说.
Directly before
- 小孩一般来说1
- 人一般来说1
- 汤姆一般来说1
Directly after
- 一般来说是2
- 一般来说都1
- 一般来说男人1
- 一般来说所得税1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 一般来说
What does 一般来说 mean in Chinese?
一般来说 (yībānláishuō) means generally speaking.
How do you pronounce 一般来说?
一般来说 is pronounced yībānláishuō.
Is 一般来说 an HSK word?
一般来说 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
SEE IT IN CONTEXT
Upload a videoTurn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.
Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.