I want to be friends with you.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
交朋友
to make friends
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to make friends
02
(dialect) to start an affair with sb
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 交朋友 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 交朋友 appears in 15 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I do want to be your friend.
Tom tried to make friends.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 交朋友.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 交朋友.
Directly before
- 你交朋友3
- 他交朋友1
- 开恩交朋友1
- 人交朋友1
- 他们交朋友1
Directly after
- 交朋友很1
- 交朋友很难1
- 交朋友了1
- 交朋友吧1
- 交朋友的话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 交朋友
What does 交朋友 mean in Chinese?
交朋友 (jiāopéngyou) means to make friends.
How do you pronounce 交朋友?
交朋友 is pronounced jiāopéngyou.
Is 交朋友 an HSK word?
交朋友 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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