He is not willing to testify for his compatriot.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
作证
to bear witness; to testify
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to bear witness; to testify
02
to serve as evidence
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 作证 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 作证 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
She testified that she saw the man.
The lawyer warned his client against testifying, but he did it anyway.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 作证.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 作证.
Directly before
- 反对作证1
- 的作证1
- 她作证1
- 可以作证1
- 同胞作证1
Directly after
- 作证说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 作证
What does 作证 mean in Chinese?
作证 (zuòzhèng) means to bear witness; to testify.
How do you pronounce 作证?
作证 is pronounced zuòzhèng.
Is 作证 an HSK word?
作证 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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