I've been in prison more than once.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
入狱
to go to jail
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to go to jail
02
to be sent to prison
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 入狱 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 入狱 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He was in prison on a charge of robbery.
What were you in prison for?
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 入狱.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 入狱.
Directly before
- 我入狱1
- 偷窃罪入狱1
- 为什么入狱1
Directly after
- 入狱不止一次1
- 入狱的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 入狱
What does 入狱 mean in Chinese?
入狱 (rùyù) means to go to jail.
How do you pronounce 入狱?
入狱 is pronounced rùyù.
Is 入狱 an HSK word?
入狱 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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