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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

千古

qiāngǔ

for all eternity

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

for all eternity

02

throughout all ages

03

eternity (used in an elegiac couplet, wreath etc dedicated to the dead)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 千古 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 千古 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

大江东去,浪淘尽,千古风流人物。dà jiāng dōng qù, làng táo jǐn, qiān gǔ fēng liú rén wù。

No published English translation for this sentence.

唐诗宋词千古唱,秦砖汉瓦照人寰。táng shī sòng cí qiān gǔ chàng, qín zhuān hàn wǎ zhào rén huán。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 千古.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 千古.

Directly before

  • 唐诗宋词千古1

Directly after

  • 千古风流人物1
  • 千古唱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 千古

What does 千古 mean in Chinese?

千古 (qiāngǔ) means for all eternity.

How do you pronounce 千古?

千古 is pronounced qiāngǔ.

Is 千古 an HSK word?

千古 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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