He lives for nothing but pleasure.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
享乐
to enjoy life
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to enjoy life
02
pleasures of life
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 享乐 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 享乐 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I never consider ease and joyfulness as the purpose of life itself.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 享乐.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 享乐.
Directly before
- 除了享乐1
- 和享乐1
Directly after
- 享乐之外1
- 享乐是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 享乐
What does 享乐 mean in Chinese?
享乐 (xiǎnglè) means to enjoy life.
How do you pronounce 享乐?
享乐 is pronounced xiǎnglè.
Is 享乐 an HSK word?
享乐 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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