Coming out of the closet requires tremendous courage.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
出柜
to come out of the closet
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to come out of the closet
02
to reveal one's sexual orientation
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 出柜 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 出柜 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
They both agreed to come out of the closet to their family.
For many gay men, coming out of the closet is a difficult experience.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 出柜.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 出柜.
Directly before
- 家人出柜1
- 们出柜1
- 他出柜1
Directly after
- 出柜是1
- 出柜需要1
- 出柜了1
- 出柜成为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 出柜
What does 出柜 mean in Chinese?
出柜 (chūguì) means to come out of the closet.
How do you pronounce 出柜?
出柜 is pronounced chūguì.
Is 出柜 an HSK word?
出柜 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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