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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

前行

qiánxíng

(literary) to go forward

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(literary) to go forward

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 前行 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 前行 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

火车以每小时50英里的速度前行。huǒ chē yǐ měi xiǎo shí 50 yīng lǐ de sù dù qián xíng。

The train is traveling at the rate of 50 miles an hour.

在遇到暴风雪之前,我们一路顺利地前行。zài yù dào bào fēng xuě zhī qián, wǒ men yī lù shùn lì dì qián xíng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 前行.

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

Directly before

  • 速度前行1
  • 地前行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 前行

What does 前行 mean in Chinese?

前行 (qiánxíng) means (literary) to go forward.

How do you pronounce 前行?

前行 is pronounced qiánxíng.

Is 前行 an HSK word?

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

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