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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

内敛

nèiliǎn

introverted

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

introverted

02

reserved

03

(artistic style) understated

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 内敛 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 内敛 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

日本人普遍很内敛。rì běn rén pǔ biàn hěn nèi liǎn。

Japanese people are generally very reserved.

"内敛"就是说自己挺好的,嘴上说自己不好,这样是中国式的谦虚。" nèi liǎn " jiù shì shuō zì jǐ tǐng hǎo de, zuǐ shàng shuō zì jǐ bù hǎo, zhè yàng shì zhōng guó shì de qiān xū。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 内敛.

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

Directly before

  • 很内敛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 内敛

What does 内敛 mean in Chinese?

内敛 (nèiliǎn) means introverted.

How do you pronounce 内敛?

内敛 is pronounced nèiliǎn.

Is 内敛 an HSK word?

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

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