CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

俯瞰

fǔkàn

to look down at (from a high vantage point)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

to look down at (from a high vantage point)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 俯瞰 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 俯瞰 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

窗户俯瞰著院子。chuāng hù fǔ kàn zhù yuàn zi。

The window overlooks the courtyard.

越过松林，远处有一座小花园。那里青草长得又长又茂盛，铁杉花像洁白的星星一样闪耀，夜莺整夜唱歌。它整夜歌唱，冰冷的月光俯瞰著它，紫杉树张开巨大的枝干，庇护著沉睡的人们。yuè guò sōng lín， yuǎn chù yǒu yī zuò xiǎo huā yuán。 nà lǐ qīng cǎo zhǎng dé yòu zhǎng yòu mào shèng， tiě shān huā xiàng jié bái de xīng xīng yī yàng shǎn yào， yè yīng zhěng yè chàng gē。 tā zhěng yè gē chàng， bīng lěng de yuè guāng fǔ kàn zhù tā， zǐ shān shù zhāng kāi jù dà de zhī gàn， bì hù zhù chén shuì de rén men。

Far away beyond the pine-woods, there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 俯瞰.

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

Directly before

窗户俯瞰1
月光俯瞰1

Directly after

俯瞰著2

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 俯瞰

What does 俯瞰 mean in Chinese?

俯瞰 (fǔkàn) means to look down at (from a high vantage point).

How do you pronounce 俯瞰?

俯瞰 is pronounced fǔkàn.

Is 俯瞰 an HSK word?

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

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