The sea looked quite green, and large icebergs were floating about.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
冰山
iceberg
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
iceberg
02
ice-covered mountain
03
(fig.) a backer one cannot rely on for long
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 冰山 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 冰山 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 冰山.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 冰山.
Directly before
- 了冰山1
- 的冰山1
Directly after
- 冰山漂浮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 冰山
What does 冰山 mean in Chinese?
冰山 (bīngshān) means iceberg.
How do you pronounce 冰山?
冰山 is pronounced bīngshān.
Is 冰山 an HSK word?
冰山 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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