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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

北风

běifēng

north wind

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

north wind

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 北风 actually appears in real sentences.

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

刮的是北风。guā de shì běi fēng。

A north wind is blowing.

穷秋九月荷叶黄,北风驱雁天雨霜。qióng qiū jiǔ yuè hé yè huáng, běi fēng qū yàn tiān yǔ shuāng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 北风.

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

Directly before

  • 是北风1

Directly after

  • 北风驱雁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 北风

What does 北风 mean in Chinese?

北风 (běifēng) means north wind.

How do you pronounce 北风?

北风 is pronounced běifēng.

Is 北风 an HSK word?

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

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