Outstanding!
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
出类拔萃
to excel the common (idiom); surpassing
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to excel the common (idiom); surpassing
02
preeminent
03
outstanding
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 出类拔萃 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 出类拔萃 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He towers above the rest of the class.
Mary is fairly plain, but Tom thinks she's the bee's knees.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 出类拔萃.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 出类拔萃.
Directly before
- 是出类拔萃1
- 班上出类拔萃1
- 她出类拔萃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 出类拔萃
What does 出类拔萃 mean in Chinese?
出类拔萃 (chūlèibácuì) means to excel the common (idiom); surpassing.
How do you pronounce 出类拔萃?
出类拔萃 is pronounced chūlèibácuì.
Is 出类拔萃 an HSK word?
出类拔萃 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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