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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

冰川

bīngchuān

glacier

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

glacier

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 冰川 actually appears in real sentences.

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

阿尔吉利亚没有冰川。ā ěr jí lì yà méi yǒu bīng chuān。

Algeria has no glaciers.

这座位於南亚中心的雄伟山脉,山峰白雪皑皑,覆盖著广阔的冰川。zhè zuò wèi yú nán yà zhōng xīn de xióng wěi shān mài, shān fēng bái xuě ái ái, fù gài zhù guǎng kuò de bīng chuān。

This majestic mountain range in the heart of south Asia is crowned with snowcapped peaks and draped with vast glaciers.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 冰川.

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

Directly before

  • 没有冰川1
  • 的冰川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 冰川

What does 冰川 mean in Chinese?

冰川 (bīngchuān) means glacier.

How do you pronounce 冰川?

冰川 is pronounced bīngchuān.

Is 冰川 an HSK word?

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

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