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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

作伴

zuòbàn

to accompany

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to accompany

02

to keep sb company

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 作伴 actually appears in real sentences.

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

他已经和他的女朋友作伴了。tā yǐ jīng hé tā de nǚ péng yǒu zuò bàn le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

他买了一袋手工柿饼,送给远方的亲戚作伴手礼。tā mǎi le yī dài shǒu gōng shì bǐng, sòng gěi yuǎn fāng de qīn qī zuò bàn shǒu lǐ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 作伴.

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

Directly before

  • 女朋友作伴1
  • 亲戚作伴1

Directly after

  • 作伴了1
  • 作伴手礼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 作伴

What does 作伴 mean in Chinese?

作伴 (zuòbàn) means to accompany.

How do you pronounce 作伴?

作伴 is pronounced zuòbàn.

Is 作伴 an HSK word?

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

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