CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

先知

xiānzhī

a person of foresight

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

a person of foresight

(religion) a prophet

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 先知 actually appears in real sentences.

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

一只赛勒诺栖於岩石之上，你看，/ 那阴郁的女先知就这样嘎声道出她的末日预言。/「还有战争，拉俄墨冬两度背信的后裔！/ 你们带来的是战争，还偷杀了我们的牛群？/ 而你们还要将无辜的哈尔庇厄驱逐，/ 赶出她们古老、世代相传的领地？」yī zhī sài lēi nuò qī yú yán shí zhī shàng， nǐ kàn，/ nà yīn yù de nǚ xiān zhī jiù zhè yàng gā shēng dào chū tā de mò rì yù yán。/「hái yǒu zhàn zhēng， lā é mò dōng liǎng dù bèi xìn de hòu yì！/ nǐ men dài lái de shì zhàn zhēng， hái tōu shā le wǒ men de niú qún？/ ér nǐ men hái yào jiāng wú gū de hā ěr bì è qū zhú，/ gǎn chū tā men gǔ lǎo、 shì dài xiāng chuán de lǐng dì？」

One perched, Celaeno, on a rock, and lo, / thus croaked the dismal seer her prophecy of woe. / "War, too, Laomedon's twice-perjured race! / War do ye bring, our cattle stol'n and slain? / And unoffending Harpies would ye chase / forth from their old, hereditary reign?"

除了安拉再没有其他神明，默罕默德是他的先知。chú le ān lā zài méi yǒu qí tā shén míng， mò hǎn mò dé shì tā de xiān zhī。

No published English translation for this sentence.

耶稣进了圣殿，正在教导人的时候，祭司长和民间的长老来质问祂：“你凭什么权柄做这些事？谁授权给你了？” 耶稣说：“我也要问你们一个问题，你们回答了，我就告诉你们我凭什么权柄做这些事。约翰的洗礼是从哪里来的？从天上来的，还是从人来的？” 他们便彼此议论说：“如果我们说‘是从天上来的’，祂一定会问我们，‘那你们为什么不信他？’ 但如果我们说‘是从人来的’，又怕触怒百姓，因为他们相信约翰是个先知。” 于是，他们回答耶稣说：“我们不知道。” 耶稣说：“我也不告诉你们我凭什么权柄做这些事。”yē sū jìn le shèng diàn， zhèng zài jiào dǎo rén de shí hòu， jì sī zhǎng hé mín jiān de zhǎng lǎo lái zhì wèn tā：“ nǐ píng shén me quán bǐng zuò zhè xiē shì？ shuí shòu quán gěi nǐ le？” yē sū shuō：“ wǒ yě yào wèn nǐ men yí gè wèn tí， nǐ men huí dá le， wǒ jiù gào sù nǐ men wǒ píng shén me quán bǐng zuò zhè xiē shì。 yuē hàn de xǐ lǐ shì cóng nǎ lǐ lái de？ cóng tiān shàng lái de， hái shì cóng rén lái de？” tā men biàn bǐ cǐ yì lùn shuō：“ rú guǒ wǒ men shuō ‘ shì cóng tiān shàng lái de ’， tā yí dìng huì wèn wǒ men，‘ nà nǐ men wèi shén me bù xìn tā？’ dàn rú guǒ wǒ men shuō ‘ shì cóng rén lái de ’， yòu pà chù nù bǎi xìng， yīn wèi tā men xiāng xìn yuē hàn shì gè xiān zhī。” yú shì， tā men huí dá yē sū shuō：“ wǒ men bù zhī dào。” yē sū shuō：“ wǒ yě bù gào sù nǐ men wǒ píng shén me quán bǐng zuò zhè xiē shì。”

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 先知.

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

Directly before

的先知1
个先知1
女先知1

Directly after

先知就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 先知

What does 先知 mean in Chinese?

先知 (xiānzhī) means a person of foresight.

How do you pronounce 先知?

先知 is pronounced xiānzhī.

Is 先知 an HSK word?

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

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