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何谓

héwèi

(literary) what is?

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(literary) what is?

02

what is the meaning of?

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 何谓 actually appears in real sentences.

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

这部电影试图打破刻板印象,重新诠释何谓真正的男性特质。zhè bù diàn yǐng shì tú dǎ pò kè bǎn yìn xiàng, chóng xīn quán shì hé wèi zhēn zhèng de nán xìng tè zhì。

This film attempts to break stereotypes and redefine what true masculinity is.

我不知道何谓「不可能」。wǒ bù zhī dào hé wèi 「bù kě néng」。

No published English translation for this sentence.

他的领导风格融合理性与情感,重新定义了何谓成功的男性特质。tā de lǐng dǎo fēng gé róng hé lǐ xìng yǔ qíng gǎn, chóng xīn dìng yì le hé wèi chéng gōng de nán xìng tè zhì。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 何谓.

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

Directly before

  • 诠释何谓1
  • 了何谓1
  • 知道何谓1

Directly after

  • 何谓真正1
  • 何谓成功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 何谓

What does 何谓 mean in Chinese?

何谓 (héwèi) means (literary) what is?.

How do you pronounce 何谓?

何谓 is pronounced héwèi.

Is 何谓 an HSK word?

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

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