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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

十字

shízì

cross road

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

cross road

02

cross-shaped

03

crucifix

04

the character ten

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 十字 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 十字 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

掌中有神秘十字纹,往往与命运转折或灵性悟性相关。zhǎng zhōng yǒu shén mì shí zì wén, wǎng wǎng yǔ mìng yùn zhuàn zhé huò líng xìng wù xìng xiāng guān。

No published English translation for this sentence.

今天双十节国庆日,发现国名「中华民国」有十个十字!jīn tiān shuāng shí jié guó qìng rì, fā xiàn guó míng 「zhōng huá mín guó」 yǒu shí gè shí zì!

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 十字.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 十字.

Directly before

  • 十个十字1
  • 神秘十字1

Directly after

  • 十字纹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 十字

What does 十字 mean in Chinese?

十字 (shízì) means cross road.

How do you pronounce 十字?

十字 is pronounced shízì.

Is 十字 an HSK word?

十字 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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