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倒影

dàoyǐng

inverted image

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

inverted image

02

reversed image (e.g. upside down)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 倒影 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 倒影 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

水洼里可以看见倒影。shuǐ wā lǐ kě yǐ kàn jiàn dào yǐng。

Reflections could be seen in the puddles.

我的猫儿一脸迷惘地盯著自己在水中的倒影。wǒ de māo ér yī liǎn mí wǎng dì dīng zhù zì jǐ zài shuǐ zhōng de dào yǐng。

My cat peers bemusedly at her reflection in the water.

苍蝇在镜子上游走，并不在乎脚尖栖息和奔跑映出的倒影；相反，它在光滑的表面上看到许多令它感兴趣的小东西，而我们却把这些东西当成是灰尘和污垢。cāng yíng zài jìng zi shàng yóu zǒu， bìng bù zài hū jiǎo jiān qī xī hé bēn pǎo yìng chū de dào yǐng； xiāng fǎn， tā zài guāng huá de biǎo miàn shàng kàn dào xǔ duō lìng tā gǎn xìng qù de xiǎo dōng xī， ér wǒ men què bǎ zhè xiē dōng xī dàng chéng shì huī chén hé wū gòu。

The fly running on the mirror doesn't worry about its reflection on the points of its legs from which it sits and runs; but on the contrary, it sees on the smooth surface a quantity of very small things which interest it and which we confuse with dust and grime.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 倒影.

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

Directly before

  • 的倒影2
  • 看见倒影1

Directly after

  • No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 倒影

What does 倒影 mean in Chinese?

倒影 (dàoyǐng) means inverted image.

How do you pronounce 倒影?

倒影 is pronounced dàoyǐng.

Is 倒影 an HSK word?

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

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