I was secretly in love with him.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
单恋
unrequited love
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
unrequited love
02
one-sided love
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 单恋 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 单恋 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'm secretly in love with her.
I'm secretly in a one-sided love with them.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 单恋.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 单恋.
Directly before
- 偷偷单恋3
- 一场单恋1
Directly after
- 单恋他1
- 单恋她1
- 单恋他们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 单恋
What does 单恋 mean in Chinese?
单恋 (dānliàn) means unrequited love.
How do you pronounce 单恋?
单恋 is pronounced dānliàn.
Is 单恋 an HSK word?
单恋 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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