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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

书信

shūxìn

letter

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

letter

02

epistle

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 书信 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 书信 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我们只是书信联系,没有直接见过面。wǒ men zhǐ shì shū xìn lián xì, méi yǒu zhí jiē jiàn guò miàn。

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在古代,臣子常以书信形式向皇帝陈报国内情况。zài gǔ dài, chén zi cháng yǐ shū xìn xíng shì xiàng huáng dì chén bào guó nèi qíng kuàng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

一开始他画漫画,他的许多书信—甚至案件档案—都有他画的插图。yī kāi shǐ tā huà màn huà, tā de xǔ duō shū xìn — shèn zhì àn jiàn dàng àn — dōu yǒu tā huà de chā tú。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 书信.

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

Directly before

  • 只是书信1
  • 许多书信1
  • 以书信1

Directly after

  • 书信联系1
  • 书信形式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 书信

What does 书信 mean in Chinese?

书信 (shūxìn) means letter.

How do you pronounce 书信?

书信 is pronounced shūxìn.

Is 书信 an HSK word?

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

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