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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

共处

gòngchǔ

to coexist

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to coexist

02

to get along (with others)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 共处 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 共处 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我们必须学会与自然和谐共处。wǒ men bì xū xué huì yǔ zì rán hé xié gòng chǔ。

We must learn to live in harmony with nature.

因为他们的财物过多,不能同居共处:他们寄居的地方也容不下他们,因为他们的牲畜甚多。yīn wèi tā men de cái wù guò duō, bù néng tóng jū gòng chǔ: tā men jì jū de dì fāng yě róng bù xià tā men, yīn wèi tā men de shēng chù shèn duō。

For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 共处.

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

Directly before

  • 和谐共处1
  • 同居共处1

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 共处

What does 共处 mean in Chinese?

共处 (gòngchǔ) means to coexist.

How do you pronounce 共处?

共处 is pronounced gòngchǔ.

Is 共处 an HSK word?

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

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