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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

健将

jiànjiàng

(archaic) adept and valiant military general

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(archaic) adept and valiant military general

02

skilled athlete; top player

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 健将 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 健将 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

Ken 是游泳健将。Ken shì yóu yǒng jiàn jiàng。

Ken is a good swimmer.

她老是吹嘘自己是个游泳健将。tā lǎo shì chuī xū zì jǐ shì gè yóu yǒng jiàn jiàng。

She always boasts of being a good swimmer.

她是游泳健将。tā shì yóu yǒng jiàn jiàng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 健将.

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

Directly before

  • 游泳健将3

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 健将

What does 健将 mean in Chinese?

健将 (jiànjiàng) means (archaic) adept and valiant military general.

How do you pronounce 健将?

健将 is pronounced jiànjiàng.

Is 健将 an HSK word?

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

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