CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

令人发指

lìngrénfàzhǐ

(idiom) to make one feel a sense of revulsion; abhorrent; heinous; deeply disturbing

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

(idiom) to make one feel a sense of revulsion; abhorrent; heinous; deeply disturbing

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 令人发指 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 令人发指 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

阿里穆罕默德盖迪总理周六在奈洛比对记者表示，他的政府强烈谴责所谓的「令人发指、犯罪且不人道的行为」。ā lǐ mù hǎn mò dé gài dí zǒng lǐ zhōu liù zài nài luò bǐ duì jì zhě biǎo shì， tā de zhèng fǔ qiáng liè qiǎn zé suǒ wèi de 「lìng rén fà zhǐ、 fàn zuì qiě bù rén dào de xíng wéi」。

Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi told reporters in Nairobi Saturday that his government strongly condemns what he called an "abhorrent, criminal and inhumane act."

他已经洁癖到令人发指的程度。tā yǐ jīng jié pǐ dào lìng rén fà zhǐ de chéng dù。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 令人发指.

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

Directly before

到令人发指1

Directly after

令人发指的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 令人发指

What does 令人发指 mean in Chinese?

令人发指 (lìngrénfàzhǐ) means (idiom) to make one feel a sense of revulsion; abhorrent; heinous; deeply disturbing.

How do you pronounce 令人发指?

令人发指 is pronounced lìngrénfàzhǐ.

Is 令人发指 an HSK word?

令人发指 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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