Strictly speaking, the earth is not round.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
严格来说
strictly speaking
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
strictly speaking
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 严格来说 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 严格来说 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Strictly speaking, Chinese consists of hundreds of dialects.
Strictly speaking, the tomato is not a vegetable. It's a fruit.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 严格来说.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 严格来说.
Directly before
- 但严格来说1
Directly after
- 严格来说不属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 严格来说
What does 严格来说 mean in Chinese?
严格来说 (yángéláishuō) means strictly speaking.
How do you pronounce 严格来说?
严格来说 is pronounced yángéláishuō.
Is 严格来说 an HSK word?
严格来说 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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