You must be careful in choosing your friends.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
交友
to make friends
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to make friends
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 交友 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 交友 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
You should choose your friends very carefully.
David was going through profiles on dating apps.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 交友.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 交友.
Directly before
- 的交友1
- 慎重交友1
- 浏览交友1
Directly after
- 交友须1
- 交友邀请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 交友
What does 交友 mean in Chinese?
交友 (jiāoyǒu) means to make friends.
How do you pronounce 交友?
交友 is pronounced jiāoyǒu.
Is 交友 an HSK word?
交友 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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