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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

修饰

xiūshì

to decorate

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to decorate

02

to adorn

03

to dress up

04

to polish (a written piece)

05

to qualify or modify (grammar)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 修饰 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 修饰 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

通过遗传修饰,我们可以改良农作物。tōng guò yí chuán xiū shì, wǒ men kě yǐ gǎi liáng nóng zuò wù。

Through genetic modification, we can improve crops.

修饰名词的东西(形容词,或形容词相等语)。xiū shì míng cí de dōng xī (xíng róng cí, huò xíng róng cí xiāng děng yǔ)。

Things that modify nouns (adjective, or adjectival equivalent).

束腹带不仅能修饰身形,还可以提供背部支撑。shù fù dài bù jǐn néng xiū shì shēn xíng, hái kě yǐ tí gōng bèi bù zhī chēng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 修饰.

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

Directly before

  • 遗传修饰1
  • 能修饰1
  • 用来修饰1
  • 来修饰1

Directly after

  • 修饰名词1
  • 修饰身形1
  • 修饰一个1
  • 修饰自身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 修饰

What does 修饰 mean in Chinese?

修饰 (xiūshì) means to decorate.

How do you pronounce 修饰?

修饰 is pronounced xiūshì.

Is 修饰 an HSK word?

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

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