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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
什么样
what kind?; what sort?
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
what kind?; what sort?
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 什么样 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 什么样 appears in 27 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Let me see what it looks like.
Tom knows exactly how I like my hair done.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 什么样.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 什么样.
Directly before
- 是什么样7
- 喜欢什么样4
- 了什么样2
- 对什么样2
- 他长什么样1
Directly after
- 什么样的21
- 什么样呢1
- 什么样啊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 什么样
What does 什么样 mean in Chinese?
什么样 (shénmeyàng) means what kind?; what sort?.
How do you pronounce 什么样?
什么样 is pronounced shénmeyàng.
Is 什么样 an HSK word?
什么样 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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