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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

击掌

jīzhǎng

to clap one's hands

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to clap one's hands

02

to clap each other's hands

03

high five

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 击掌 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 击掌 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

击掌!jī zhǎng!

High five!

击掌。jī zhǎng。

Give me five.

贝内迪托与排队的粉丝们击掌。bèi nèi dí tuō yǔ pái duì de fěn sī men jī zhǎng。

Benedito gave out high fives to fans in the queue.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 击掌.

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

Directly before

  • 们击掌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 击掌

What does 击掌 mean in Chinese?

击掌 (jīzhǎng) means to clap one's hands.

How do you pronounce 击掌?

击掌 is pronounced jīzhǎng.

Is 击掌 an HSK word?

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

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