It's totally without precedent for the suspect's attorney to be the true culprit.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
前所未闻
(idiom) unheard-of; unprecedented
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(idiom) unheard-of; unprecedented
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 前所未闻 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 前所未闻 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Declaring war after a surprise attack is to be expected, but killing over ten thousand non-combatants with a bomb is something unheard of.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 前所未闻.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 前所未闻.
Directly before
- 这前所未闻1
- 却是前所未闻1
Directly after
- 前所未闻的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 前所未闻
What does 前所未闻 mean in Chinese?
前所未闻 (qiánsuǒwèiwén) means (idiom) unheard-of; unprecedented.
How do you pronounce 前所未闻?
前所未闻 is pronounced qiánsuǒwèiwén.
Is 前所未闻 an HSK word?
前所未闻 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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