He was experienced in business.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
做生意
to do business
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to do business
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 做生意 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 做生意 appears in 9 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
My father went to Hong Kong on business.
I don't make deals with people like you.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 做生意.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 做生意.
Directly before
- 开始做生意1
- 他做生意1
- 商店做生意1
- 因为做生意1
- 还是做生意1
Directly after
- 做生意的3
- 做生意一定1
- 做生意去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 做生意
What does 做生意 mean in Chinese?
做生意 (zuòshēngyì) means to do business.
How do you pronounce 做生意?
做生意 is pronounced zuòshēngyì.
Is 做生意 an HSK word?
做生意 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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