They're playing chess.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
下棋
to play chess
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to play chess
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 下棋 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 下棋 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
We often play chess.
I will teach you to play chess.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 下棋.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 下棋.
Directly before
- 经常下棋1
- 今晚下棋1
- 肯下棋1
- 后下棋1
- 你下棋1
Directly after
- 下棋怎1
- 下棋打败1
- 下棋玩得1
- 下棋下得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 下棋
What does 下棋 mean in Chinese?
下棋 (xiàqí) means to play chess.
How do you pronounce 下棋?
下棋 is pronounced xiàqí.
Is 下棋 an HSK word?
下棋 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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