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二元

èryuán

duality

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

duality

02

dual

03

bipolar

04

binary

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 二元 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 二元 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

亚历克斯是非二元性别。yà lì kè sī shì fēi èr yuán xìng bié。

Alex is non-binary.

若要声称性别是二元的,就需要忽视阴阳人,这是不科学的,且纯粹属於意识形态问题。ruò yào shēng chēng xìng bié shì èr yuán de, jiù xū yào hū shì yīn yáng rén, zhè shì bù kē xué de, qiě chún cuì shǔ yú yì shí xíng tài wèn tí。

To claim sex is binary requires ignoring intersex people, which is unscientific and purely ideological.

性别光谱的概念帮助我们理解,性别不只是男性与女性的二元划分。xìng bié guāng pǔ de gài niàn bāng zhù wǒ men lǐ jiě, xìng bié bù zhǐ shì nán xìng yǔ nǚ xìng de èr yuán huà fēn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 二元.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 二元.

Directly before

  • 是非二元1
  • 的二元1
  • 是二元1

Directly after

  • 二元性别1
  • 二元划分1
  • 二元的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 二元

What does 二元 mean in Chinese?

二元 (èryuán) means duality.

How do you pronounce 二元?

二元 is pronounced èryuán.

Is 二元 an HSK word?

二元 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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