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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

信箱

xìnxiāng

mailbox

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

mailbox

02

post office box

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 信箱 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 信箱 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

邻居看见信箱不是空的。lín jū kàn jiàn xìn xiāng bú shì kōng de。

The neighbours see that the mailbox hasn't been emptied.

我在信箱中发现了她的信。wǒ zài xìn xiāng zhōng fā xiàn le tā de xìn。

I found her letter in the mailbox.

我在信箱中发现了你的信件。wǒ zài xìn xiāng zhōng fā xiàn le nǐ de xìn jiàn。

I found your letter in the mailbox.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 信箱.

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

Directly before

  • 在信箱2
  • 看见信箱1
  • 开信箱1
  • 放在信箱1

Directly after

  • 信箱中3
  • 信箱不是1
  • 信箱在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 信箱

What does 信箱 mean in Chinese?

信箱 (xìnxiāng) means mailbox.

How do you pronounce 信箱?

信箱 is pronounced xìnxiāng.

Is 信箱 an HSK word?

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

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