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严苛

yánkē

severe

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

severe

02

harsh

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 严苛 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 严苛 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

条件很严苛。tiáo jiàn hěn yán kē。

No published English translation for this sentence.

那位老师批改国文测验向来严苛,学生全都心知肚明。nà wèi lǎo shī pī gǎi guó wén cè yàn xiàng lái yán kē, xué shēng quán dōu xīn zhī dù míng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 严苛.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 严苛.

Directly before

  • 很严苛1
  • 向来严苛1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 严苛

What does 严苛 mean in Chinese?

严苛 (yánkē) means severe.

How do you pronounce 严苛?

严苛 is pronounced yánkē.

Is 严苛 an HSK word?

严苛 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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