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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
元音
vowel
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
vowel
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 元音 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 元音 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 元音.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 元音.
Directly before
- 没有元音2
- 的元音1
- 添加元音1
Directly after
- 元音的2
- 元音比1
- 元音是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 元音
What does 元音 mean in Chinese?
元音 (yuányīn) means vowel.
How do you pronounce 元音?
元音 is pronounced yuányīn.
Is 元音 an HSK word?
元音 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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