Europeans drink, on average, 12.5 liters of pure alcohol per year.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
公升
liter
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
liter
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 公升 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 公升 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The rules now under review require an average of 54.5 miles per gallon (23 kilometers per liter) from an automaker's entire fleet by 2025.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 公升.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 公升.
Directly before
- 五公升1
- 每公升1
Directly after
- 公升的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 公升
What does 公升 mean in Chinese?
公升 (gōngshēng) means liter.
How do you pronounce 公升?
公升 is pronounced gōngshēng.
Is 公升 an HSK word?
公升 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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