My room faces east.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
东边
east
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
east
02
east side
03
eastern part
04
to the east of
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 东边 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 东边 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
Aristocrats lived to the east and west of the imperial palace.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 东边.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 东边.
Directly before
- 的东边4
- 面向东边1
- 广场东边1
- 从东边1
- 去东边1
Directly after
- 东边和1
- 东边有1
- 东边升起1
- 东边有湖1
- 东边日出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 东边
What does 东边 mean in Chinese?
东边 (dōngbian) means east.
How do you pronounce 东边?
东边 is pronounced dōngbian.
Is 东边 an HSK word?
东边 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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