My city is fifty kilometres from the capital.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
千米
kilometer
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
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kilometer
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 千米 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 千米 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom biked 30 km to the store to buy strawberries for his pregnant wife.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 千米.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 千米.
Directly before
- 五十千米1
Directly after
- 千米到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 千米
What does 千米 mean in Chinese?
千米 (qiānmǐ) means kilometer.
How do you pronounce 千米?
千米 is pronounced qiānmǐ.
Is 千米 an HSK word?
千米 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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