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二来

èrlái

secondly

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

secondly

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 二来 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 二来 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我打电话给你,一来是想请你吃饭,二来是想告诉你我儿子要结婚了。wǒ dǎ diàn huà gěi nǐ, yī lái shì xiǎng qǐng nǐ chī fàn, èr lái shì xiǎng gào sù nǐ wǒ ér zi yào jié hūn le。

I called you, on the one hand to invite you out to eat, and on the other to tell you my son is going to get married.

这样做,一来可以认识更多的中国朋友,二来可以锻炼你的口语。zhè yàng zuò, yī lái kě yǐ rèn shí gèng duō de zhōng guó péng yǒu, èr lái kě yǐ duàn liàn nǐ de kǒu yǔ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 二来.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 二来.

Directly before

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.

Directly after

  • 二来是1
  • 二来可以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 二来

What does 二来 mean in Chinese?

二来 (èrlái) means secondly.

How do you pronounce 二来?

二来 is pronounced èrlái.

Is 二来 an HSK word?

二来 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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