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划船

huáchuán

to row a boat

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to row a boat

02

rowing; boating

03

small boat

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 划船 actually appears in real sentences.

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

我们轮流划船吧。wǒ men lún liú huá chuán ba。

Let's take turns rowing the boat.

让我们轮流划船。ràng wǒ men lún liú huá chuán。

Let's take turns rowing the boat.

为了参加划船比赛,一支新的队伍组成了。wèi le cān jiā huá chuán bǐ sài, yī zhī xīn de duì wǔ zǔ chéng le。

A new team was formed in order to take part in the boat race.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 划船.

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

Directly before

  • 轮流划船2
  • 参加划船1

Directly after

  • 划船比赛1
  • 划船吧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 划船

What does 划船 mean in Chinese?

划船 (huáchuán) means to row a boat.

How do you pronounce 划船?

划船 is pronounced huáchuán.

Is 划船 an HSK word?

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

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