Wash before first wearing.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
初次
for the first time
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
for the first time
02
first (meeting, attempt etc)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 初次 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 初次 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
The first time feels like a sunny day.
The stranger who sails for the first time up the Firth of Forth must be struck with the numerous villages that stud its picturesque shores.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 初次.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 初次.
Directly before
- 这是初次1
- 使初次1
Directly after
- 初次穿着1
- 初次的1
- 初次来访1
- 初次於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 初次
What does 初次 mean in Chinese?
初次 (chūcì) means for the first time.
How do you pronounce 初次?
初次 is pronounced chūcì.
Is 初次 an HSK word?
初次 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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