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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

亲友

qīnyǒu

friends and relatives

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

friends and relatives

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 亲友 actually appears in real sentences.

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

我的亲友刚刚在交通事故中过世。wǒ de qīn yǒu gāng gāng zài jiāo tōng shì gù zhōng guò shì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

订婚当天,长辈会先分发喜糖给亲友,增添喜气。dìng hūn dàng tiān, zhǎng bèi huì xiān fēn fā xǐ táng gěi qīn yǒu, zēng tiān xǐ qì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

喜糖不仅是糖果,也是新人向亲友表达感谢的一种方式。xǐ táng bù jǐn shì táng guǒ, yě shì xīn rén xiàng qīn yǒu biǎo dá gǎn xiè de yī zhǒng fāng shì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 亲友.

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

Directly before

  • 的亲友1
  • 给亲友1
  • 向亲友1

Directly after

  • 亲友刚刚1
  • 亲友表达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 亲友

What does 亲友 mean in Chinese?

亲友 (qīnyǒu) means friends and relatives.

How do you pronounce 亲友?

亲友 is pronounced qīnyǒu.

Is 亲友 an HSK word?

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

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